Ink I am contemplating getting
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kaberett(Content notes: tattoos, self-injury, surgery.)
Catalogued for the sake of writing them down, with twofold purpose thereto.
SO YES. There's a thing. (Brought to you by idly contemplating getting through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered/I have fought my way here/for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great/you have no power over me as scrawl over a shoulderblade.)
Catalogued for the sake of writing them down, with twofold purpose thereto.
- only by moving can balance/only by balancing move around a bicep (around both biceps?). Need to work out precise placement and font etc - I am thinking either as a single line (obviously in smaller text), with lines separated by vertically-centered points; or two lines of text, the second upside-down (larger text; probably more flowing script, also). White ink?
- The Huge Back/Chestpiece: bricks (a la Pink Floyd) over my shoulderblades and upper back, turning into jigsaw pieces around my sides and over my chest (to follow top surgery) -- could then be annotated/added to for important stuff -- e.g. I am contemplating getting a tiny skylark perching on one of the cement-lines between bricks, because of Reasons. White ink.
- Something involving the huge navel-to-pubic-bone scar I might acquire. Not sure what: ideas I'm chucking around include peacock feather (scar as quill, navel as eye outlined in teal, otherwise white ink) and poppy (pubic hair as stylised roots, scar as stem, navel as centre of flower).
- I might not need things for the other lap scars; will think about it.
- Scar on my arm is fading enough that I probably don't want to complete it in white ink.
SO YES. There's a thing. (Brought to you by idly contemplating getting through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered/I have fought my way here/for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great/you have no power over me as scrawl over a shoulderblade.)
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Date: 2013-07-11 11:58 am (UTC)Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-11 12:01 pm (UTC)This harpsichord pavane by Purcell
And the racer's twelve-speed bike.
The machinery of grace is always simple.
This chrome trapezoid, one wheel connected
To another of concentric gears,
Which Ptolemy dreamt of and Schwinn perfected,
Is gone. The cyclist, not the cycle, steers,
And in the playing, Purcell's chords are played away.
So think talk, or touch if I were there,
Should work its effortless gadgetry of love,
Like Dante's heaven, and melt into the air,
If it doesn't, of course, I've fallen. So much is chance,
So much agility, desire and feverish care,
As bicyclists and harpsichordists prove
Who only by moving can balance,
Only by balancing move.
Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-11 12:03 pm (UTC)(This one's getting copied down in my little book. Oh wow.)
Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-11 12:04 pm (UTC)Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-11 12:13 pm (UTC)Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-11 12:17 pm (UTC)Actually, I should give Being Alive another go now that I'm more its target audience... and thank you, you've just prompted me to buy the third of the trilogy, Being Human, because that is probably something that would be really good for me right now.
Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-13 08:48 pm (UTC)Re: Machines - Michael Donaghy
Date: 2013-07-14 11:07 pm (UTC)