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Jun. 22nd, 2004 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aslantthis morning on the subway, i saw the worst tattoo. not the blurry $50 cocoa beach rose on the ankle kind, but the obviously expensive, poorly planned kind.
picture a really pretty young girl, 17 if she was a day; on the nape of her otherwise lovely neck there are a series of tattooed holes. like, bloody holes rent in her flesh, about an inch wide, going up the back of her neck like shoelace holes. eight or ten of them. now picture that out of the bottommost hole is hanging the colorful, warty, green, limp tail of a caterpillar that is enthusiastically diving in and out of the holes and winding its way up the entire tattoo, which was probably five or six inches high altogether.
why, i thought silently. why? that really unfortunately-too-large ring she can eventually take out of her lip & let heal. that hideous brow plucking job? will eventually fill in. with care, she will probably learn one day that her skin tone just looks all wrong with purple eyeshadow. but that obviously expensive, otherwise very skilled work of unfortunate body art will not go away without a lot of money. i have trouble thinking how one would arrive at that tattoo design. see, with bloody holes in my flesh! and the caterpillar, which is not cute but nasty, see, because i'm hardc0re, it dives in and out of the holes! awesome. here's my dad's visa card and my fake ID. even better, she and a bunch of her teenybopper friends blocked the ENTIRE subway door, at 8 in the morning, and were clothed head to toe in celtics gear. a bad tattoo AND a shitty teenage hockey party, all before i've had my coffee! excellent. happy tuesday!
picture a really pretty young girl, 17 if she was a day; on the nape of her otherwise lovely neck there are a series of tattooed holes. like, bloody holes rent in her flesh, about an inch wide, going up the back of her neck like shoelace holes. eight or ten of them. now picture that out of the bottommost hole is hanging the colorful, warty, green, limp tail of a caterpillar that is enthusiastically diving in and out of the holes and winding its way up the entire tattoo, which was probably five or six inches high altogether.
why, i thought silently. why? that really unfortunately-too-large ring she can eventually take out of her lip & let heal. that hideous brow plucking job? will eventually fill in. with care, she will probably learn one day that her skin tone just looks all wrong with purple eyeshadow. but that obviously expensive, otherwise very skilled work of unfortunate body art will not go away without a lot of money. i have trouble thinking how one would arrive at that tattoo design. see, with bloody holes in my flesh! and the caterpillar, which is not cute but nasty, see, because i'm hardc0re, it dives in and out of the holes! awesome. here's my dad's visa card and my fake ID. even better, she and a bunch of her teenybopper friends blocked the ENTIRE subway door, at 8 in the morning, and were clothed head to toe in celtics gear. a bad tattoo AND a shitty teenage hockey party, all before i've had my coffee! excellent. happy tuesday!
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Date: 2004-06-22 11:01 am (UTC)