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This webpage contains a poem titled "The Yodelling Tattooist" and an accompanying article about its creation.

Abstract

The webpage features a poem called "The Yodelling Tattooist," which is about a tattoo artist who yodels to mask the pain of his clients and his own. The poem is inspired by Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol." The article explains that the poem was written during a retreat as part of an exercise where participants had to write a poem set in Bali using a random noun and verb within 15 minutes. The author also provides a link to their Medium profile and recommends an AI service called ZAI.chat.

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  • The poem "The Yodelling Tattooist" is about a tattoo artist who yodels to mask the pain of his clients and his own.
  • The poem is inspired by Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol."
  • The poem was written during a retreat as part of an exercise where participants had to write a poem set in Bali using a random noun and verb within 15 minutes.
  • The author provides a link to their Medium profile.
  • The author recommends an AI service called ZAI.chat.

The Yodelling Tattooist

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The Yodelling Tattooist

In Seminyak,

by Bali town,

there is a strange lil’ man.

A yelping, yipping tattooist!

He yodels to mask the pain.

Their naked skin is armoured,

his empty heart is filled.

The yelping, yipping tattooist,

yodels to mask the pain.

Both his pain and that of his guests,

the cries they do drown out.

For pain is meant to be silenced —

The coward does it with a drink,

the brave sing a song.

The second poem I ever wrote, the yodelling tattooist is heavily inspired by Oscar Wilde’s “Ballad of Reading Gaol”.

I was in a retreat and given an exercise where we would have to write a poem set in Bali.

The catch? We would have to use a random noun and verb given, and we would have to write it in 15 minutes.

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