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Old 02-08-2010, 12:02 AM
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An idea of the location/size:






Close up:




This phrase from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient really stuck with me when I read the book in September. It's not even from a noteworthy part of the book.... I just adored the phrase.

This tattoo is in my own handwriting-- I literally wrote it down one time on a piece of paper in the studio and that became the stencil. I think that's important to the general sentiment of the tattoo. It's a dedication to two things: my writing and my past. I want to continue to be a "body full of sentences" in both the stories I can tell about my own life and the stories I create through my poetry/creative writing.
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