The Tattooed Poets Project: Steven D. Schroeder

Today's tattooed poet is <a href="http://steveschroeder.info/">Steven D. Schroeder</a>, who sent us this photo of one of his three tattoos:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdcgfueEVzoSE5Wmu8JJbMY0V3QbU59sUORfaOXXNeT1j_3L1R2Wd1eaKyKWiPuovJdjNJVs7ZedCun4kklEV9N4LKlkFey2knUdLZLmHE_YXDfa7Pp16VGF6BpMrd-FyReHM7hhRKEU/s1600/skull1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdcgfueEVzoSE5Wmu8JJbMY0V3QbU59sUORfaOXXNeT1j_3L1R2Wd1eaKyKWiPuovJdjNJVs7ZedCun4kklEV9N4LKlkFey2knUdLZLmHE_YXDfa7Pp16VGF6BpMrd-FyReHM7hhRKEU/s400/skull1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Steven explains about this, and his other two tattoos:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"I have three tattoos. The first is an eye at the base of my neck, which I acquired on a complete whim at the age of about 25 because I decided I should have a tattoo. I liked the design, but people frequently can't tell what it is, and the color washed out a little because I didn't yet know how to care for a tattoo. The second is a brain tattoo on my left shoulder. Shortly after I got that tattoo, I knew I would need a third, because I am obsessive-compulsively symmetrical about some things, and it drove me crazy to have only one shoulder marked. So this skull is on my right shoulder. Both the brain and skull came from a shop in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Colorado Springs</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> called <a href="http://www.rutattooed.com/">R-U Tattooed</a>, which I recommend." </span></blockquote>Here's a "crisper" look:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwWjO96qusxsAddGw_e0Eokrzk7-4RKADQX0FfefWRCzlR-gZeHO3Gf5iQ75ElZVrOxgISWtbfYDQAYnqelP-bAg3Ju1aViUfInvPFQtWOODXJLJTIJbIvguE8fz1CigV0qcM0jj5lj4/s1600/Skull+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwWjO96qusxsAddGw_e0Eokrzk7-4RKADQX0FfefWRCzlR-gZeHO3Gf5iQ75ElZVrOxgISWtbfYDQAYnqelP-bAg3Ju1aViUfInvPFQtWOODXJLJTIJbIvguE8fz1CigV0qcM0jj5lj4/s320/Skull+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Steven sent us this poem, whose title, he admits, he "stole" from "<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15590">Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio</a>," by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/73">James Wright</a>:</span><br /><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Their Sons Grow Suicidally</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beautiful</i> isn’t spoken aloud.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This Paxil lacks the overdose</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of those backseat lovers <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cold</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cloud</i>,</div><div class="MsoNormal">This nude bed’s not yet said screw yourself</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Up to stick the point of the pen</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In psychiatry’s eye, this dad adopts</div><div class="MsoNormal">Friend nicknames that amputate the end,</div><div class="MsoNormal">This laboratory test job offers options</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Of food or shock from the buzzer button.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Eat that and shit and laminate</div><div class="MsoNormal">Paper tattooed with blueprints and batter</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your limbic system with bottles and sleep</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Interrupted. They call it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">getting better</i>.</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">~ ~ ~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Steven D. Schroeder’s first book of poetry is <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193428971X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=193428971X%22%3ETorched%20Verse%20Ends%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=193428971X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Torched Verse Ends</i></a> (<a href="http://www.blazevox.org/">BlazeVOX [books]</a>). </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgePR4e8FYiTvHtZxOev5_psU5zx3aOiHdTzEu8A0v0hSBvfGfgG5vi-bFp2mNJ2OKPY6Hgf4bOyueQ7gU9pJnNWA1nIJrH6gj4nxaShyphenhyphenQiATekBKhrWIulvPxO4JIouhMbU_NVcbbQfEs/s1600/9781934289716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgePR4e8FYiTvHtZxOev5_psU5zx3aOiHdTzEu8A0v0hSBvfGfgG5vi-bFp2mNJ2OKPY6Hgf4bOyueQ7gU9pJnNWA1nIJrH6gj4nxaShyphenhyphenQiATekBKhrWIulvPxO4JIouhMbU_NVcbbQfEs/s1600/9781934289716.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">His poems are available or forthcoming from <a href="http://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/"><i>Pleiades</i></a>, <a href="http://english.osu.edu/research/journals/thejournal/"><i>The Journal</i></a>, <a href="http://www.copper-nickel.org/"><i>Copper Nickel</i></a>, <i><a href="http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/SW/">Sou’wester</a>, </i>and <a href="http://therumpus.net/"><i>The Rumpus</i></a>. He edits the online poetry journal <a href="http://anti-poetry.com/"><i>Anti-</i></a>, serves as a contributing editor for <a href="http://www.riverstyx.org/"><i>River Styx</i></a>, and works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=193428971X" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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