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another tattoo used

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.06.15

I've discovered that another of my old tattoo ideas was used by someone out there. I haven't tinkered with tattoo designs for public consumption in fifteen years, but sometimes I still hear from someone that they've found one and used it.

they added the star in place of one of the maple leafs

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot