Mar 31, 2007 00:28
Imagine this:
you're sitting barelegged on warm concrete in the middle of the night. the only light comes from the moon and the laptop glowing in front of you. smoke rises from between your fingertips and your very hair as you watch two black cats stalk each other in the black night. they wrestle with each other in the garden and suddenly the entire crop of acorn and butternut squash is destroyed, and a black thing trailing a tiny vine from a collar streaks across the yard. such is the futility of things.
the marines are instituting a ban on large tattoos and tattoos below the elbows and knees. one private interviewed for the Mercury News article has five skulls spelling out "Death" on his forearm and planned on getting "Life" done on the other arm. Now such a tattoo will warrant a year's suspension from the armed forces.
young man, get that tattoo that says "life." It will save your life. Get the tattoo, get suspended, survive. show the world what's important. death should not come first.