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Metallic, sweet guitar set the mood.

Single needle piercing tender skin,

Sharp stabs of shallow pain,

Tender hands vale troubles of the day.

The buzz of small surging motor,

Summoned endorphins creating addictive highs,

Pain calling the present moment.

Symbolic violation of virgin dural matter,

Performance by

Body pierced,

                Dreadlocked ,

Inkladen,

Pagan minister,

Artist.

Everlasting penning the whim of imagination,

Sunken shallow lines lightly bleed to…

Expressed fear, spirit, surreal creation,

  Memorial of passage,

    Warning or daily mantra,

      Name of a past love,

        Symbol of life, love, terror, hate, and joy.

            Raging Lion, Cursing Tiger, Soaring Eagle.

Feminine body wrapped in the full caress of a dragon,

Lizard crawls atop a tender ear,

Cryptic kanji adorns her neck,

Rose on her soft milkskinned thigh.

Guitar string plunges into ink and forms an angel,

Name of her passed child hidden in the wings,

Mark of a passed friend hidden within a Rainbow Trinity,

Forever the branding and   -never lost-       sign of life.

Depicting stories on the canvas - streched over our moonclad frames.

Brian Dotson

11/02/2003