Day 11

You and I, my love. We will make it screaming and kicking and clawing to the end of this month. We will make it and it will be glorious. Today's mood is "Friday I'm in love"

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Origin Story

On my left hip I have tattooed "I am but dust and ashes"
On my right I have "God made the heaven and the earth for me"

I got these tattooed because I asked my friend Syd
Who I met orientation week of college
And immediately found our shared passion for bonfires and bones

And so he used his hallow needle and india ink
Pressed again and again into my hip
As I gripped the edge of his bed, white knuckled in a kind of quiet agony
Until the plain upper case letters spelled out a message to the universe.

I asked Syd for this tattoo instead of a dolphin or a flower or a semicolon
Because actually, this tattoo was my lover Taeer's idea
And she told me about it and also we both acknowledged
She would never get a tattoo
And so I asked Syd if he would give it to me instead.

Taeer told me the idea for her tattoo
Because met almost two years ago at the Ithica contra dance
In Cornell, where she was going to school
And I was living in Serycuse
And traveling around the state
And living in a tent

And she was charmed by Judaism and my anarchy
And I was charmed by her dancing.
And so the story begins