Her friends got tattoos
To signify the significant events
In life
The marriage
The birth of the child
The divorce
The end or beginning of things
She collected scars
The hit and run
That left her limping
The car crash
That kinda shouldn’t have
Happened
But left her in hospital
The chemical burn
From some incident or other
The cut from the operation
That left her less
Than she had been
The scar on her arm
From an accident
And then a different history
The wounds
From a time
She’d prefer to forget
The toxic memory
Of something
That came to nothing
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