Tattoo on gossipisgospel by Tony at Elm St. in Dallas, Texas.

I like Strawberry‘s big bold star tattoos (by Marco Senesi at Alterego Tattoo in Siena, Italy), because I’m a fan of big and bold, but I’m also posting it because I really love the unintended message. Sometimes when you get a cover-up tattoo, the scar tissue from the old tattoo temporarily swells up — and even in the darkness, hope shines through here.

You know, I wasn’t going to post today, but I figure I can add a few quickies. Check out vociferation‘s new John Donne tattoo — oh, and it’s a matching tattoo; check her gallery for those pictures…

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end, where I begun.