The Tattooed Poets Project: Jonathan Lohr

Our next tattooed poet is Jonathan Lohr, who shared this piece on the side of his torso:

Jonathan explains:

"This is a tattoo of what I think is a Russian movie poster for Buster Keaton's The General. It was done by the awesome Ryan Van Dyke who at the time was working at Vertigo Tattoo in Oxford, OH. I found the image when I was searching the phrase 'Buster Keaton on a bicycle,' which came from Jack Spicer's After Lorca."

Jonathan shared this poem:

Some Kind of Monster

the body is just shape

useful for accommodating the repetition

and able to cause importance

but really nothing more than dyad

and separation

betrayal by display of mechanics

reduction to corporeal functions

supply of oxygen nutrients

removal of waste

regulatory functions

hydraulic functions

immunological functions

messenger functions

cemetery is home to pure body

engraved as resting

fear of dormition, the fear of sleep

the housing and reflection

and betrayal of mechanics

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Jonathan Lohr is the author of The Certainty of Kent Johnson and Flipbook:  A Critical Study of the Adult-Contemporary Poetics of Kenneth Goldsmith.

Thanks to Jonathan for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday's Tattooed Poets Project!

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