tattooed karasu he slept fitfully the memory of his father's needlework he came in through the back door of his father's shop, all the sterile implements it reminded him of a dentists office he had walked in on his father as he was applying the color to a large ornate dragon on a woman's nude back his father was dismayed, but the woman remained calm, even seeming a bit amused later, his father would explain that it was not his inopportune entry that upset him, but that he had been shaken up all day over a young man in a suit and tie who had come in to have some line work done on his face he shivered when he recounted that the man had washed away a layer of make-up to reveal a face covered with designs even more ornate than the most elaborate maori face work "i told him i didn't do faces, but he waved a handful of cash at me and an antique gold coin, i tried to refuse again saying there wasn't much room left there to work he told me to give him the gun and the ink and handed me the cash, said i could watch. i would have kicked him out but i saw the bulge in his coat pocket and thought better of it, i let him do his thing, and let him take the gun and ink with him" "it was the damndest thing i ever saw, he never even flinched, not even when he was doing the little lines on his eyelids" "but as for what you saw in the shop, son, well, hey, the artist deserves to see his handiwork come to life, but could you please knock next time?" he turned over, before deciding to get up since it was still vedry early in the evening he wanted chinese food 010620 ... soia "eternal" on his lower back, I had never known before 010621 ... soia and now I'm seeping into obsession... 010621 ... guitar_freak it's funny you have a tattoo of Mary on your back, when you invented your own religon. It's cool because you just liked the picture, not the idea. I tend to wonder how your mohawk is doing. 011128 ... unhinged song_of_the_day i still have ideas for ink all the time but am no longer sure if the psychic pain warrants permanent mutilation artistic or not 220122 what's it to you? who go blather from