Be on the watch

This belongs to Elizabeth.

My tattoo is inspired my Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Laughing Heart” I took the specific line “Be on the Watch” as a reminder that as Bukowski says in his poem “the gods will offer you chances” and not to let my life “be clubbed into dank submission.” The last lines are “you are marvelous/ the gods wait to delight in you.” Every time I look at the tattoo I can remember that I AM marvelous, and life, more often than not is marvelous.

My tattoo was done by John Wilson at Scapegoat Tattoo in Portland, OR.