It's small and on the back of my neck, so I can tell you what a tattoo might feel like in that area. Also just generally what it's like to go to a tattoo shop, what they do there, etc.
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Literature
She Will
I could be in love,
For what it's worth. It's a strange thing, living in darkness. In broad daylight - whether in department stores, or, walking to the shops to buy something to eat. I'll usually wear a cap, as always, it makes me feel like I'm minimizing attention drawn to myself.You know, when you're walking down somewhere urban, and a girl occasionally searches for your eyes. It's easier to mitigate that feeling, when in those moments you look down at your watch or somewhere beyond her, with apparent purpose or mild intrigue. You can't always escape the city, but you can usually escape the always-never changing people.I'm no good with ...
Literature
Mannequins
No real faces stare at us from plastic figures of the perfect body. Your blank, white eyes peer through the shop glass, trying to catch the gaze of passers by. Tiny waists and six-pack stomachs clothed in the latest fashions stand as examples to us all- `the best way to be`. Dummies, dressed for a purpose in silky dresses, jeans, scarves, short skirts, ties… anything that looks good. Designed to tempt- “be like us, buy our clothes, diet…” - a sign that `perfection’ is finally achievable. You are pin-ups, headlining fashion magazines, and made famous by the people following your trends- the empty `idols` idolising you.Your vacant eyes foll...
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Fake
Maybe they were lenses,
But I think you had ocean eyes-
It was hard to tell
Behind the cosmetic fakery;
Lashes struggling to flutter
Like seabirds after an oil spill,
Rose blush,
Powdery,
Flaking
As the far-to-cherry-red
Of your melting lipstick
Marred those overly-white teeth.
The straw thatch of your
Peroxide-drowned hair
Showing darker roots;
And I knew then, in those few moments
I would find nothing at all real
about you or within you.
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