flesh tainted tattoo - armband

What Does this Poem Mean..?

i need to know what the writer is trying to say in this poem, it is about AIDS...

RESPECT HER
She covered up my eyes, and then in
the blindness, took a piece of my
pierced flesh and tainted,
tattooed skin.


This question would better be answered in poetry under Arts and Humanities.

Musicians@Google: Amanda Palmer

Tainted love, tainted love. ♪ Touch me baby, tainted love. ♪ Touch me baby, tainted love. ♪ Tainted love. ♪ Tainted love. ♪ Tainted love ...

Hairspray & Fideo: Poetry of the Flesh

For many of us whose identities are gender and sexually expansive, we are well aware of the intersections we sit in. Whether you’re a Xicana lesbiana mother, an HIV-positive immigrant joto, a bi-identified trans professor or any manifestation of......

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Tattoo Tattoo

He was bare-chested and the Natives were impressed with his enormous size and sunburn-tainted white flesh. He was God-like to them—an austere presence that commanded respect. They were dark skinned, the result of heredity and / or the ...

The Relativity of Deviance
299 pages
The Relativity of Deviance

... or brand cut into an individual's flesh for the purpose of identifying him or her as a tainted or despised individual. ... For example, a tattoo may be either a stigma symbol (ie, discrediting) or a prestige symbol (ie, enhancing), ...

When You Come to Me When You Come to Me

Their sweet Natalie, tainted. Natalie lowered a finger. “Really? A tattoo? ... “ Not really...there's a lot of...flesh...um...where the tattoo is...” Brandon cracked open another bottle of beer, and said, “Natalie...just stop talking ...

Inked, Clever, Odd and Outragous Tattoos
143 pages
Inked, Clever, Odd and Outragous Tattoos

Passion and fads may fade - but tattoos are forever. This quirky collection assembles an array of body art.

The Poison King, The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
448 pages
The Poison King, The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

... as long as one quickly cut away the tainted flesh around the wound. ἀ eg auls carried antidotes with them, ... and women— and even the children—was heavily tattooed, “covered with colorful patterns of all sorts of beautiful flowers.