Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » Byzantium http://www.contrariwise.org Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Byzantium, I come not from… http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/06/14/byzantium-i-come-not-from/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/06/14/byzantium-i-come-not-from/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:00:52 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=843 This is J. Rippel’s tattoo:

Just an ever-present reminder of my love, my home, my muse, Illinois. Designed by a good friend.

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Byzantium, I come not from,
But from another time and place
Whose race was simple, tried and true;

As boy
I dropped me forth in Illinois.
A name with neither love nor grace
Was Waukegan, there I came from
And not, good friends, Byzantium.

- Excerpt from “Byzantium” by Ray Bradbury

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