Or, let me Google that for you.<\/a><\/p>\nAnyway. Ewan McGregor’s dick is not really what I wanted to write about, even though it is admirable. For a dick. It was the idea of writing on someone’s body that made me think of the movie, and then I was distracted by the dick. It happens to the best of us at times. Dick is like that.<\/p>\n
Tattoos are the writing on my body.
\nSongs, lovers, books feel like they’re engraved on my heart somehow.
\nI feel like a lot of things are written on my heart\/mind, but they can’t literally be. <\/p>\n
I’d love to be able to write
\nThe things engraved on my heart
\non someone’s body
\nWith a zen brush
\nOr indelible ink
\nDepending on the thought
\nand the lover
\nand what I had to say.
\nPermanent like a tattoo,
\nor fading away
\nas soon as the ink is dry.<\/p>\n
It would be nice if some of the more painful stuff written on our hearts would fade as quickly and cleanly as zen brush calligraphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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