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Thursday  Oct 05, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Prophetic Crows

"People seem to have very hot or cool reactions to this tattoo. Either they say “why do you have a tattoo of something that eats dead animals on your arm,” or they say, “Cool, I love crows”.

At first, I got seven crows on my upper shoulder. The number seven wasn’t significant to me other than the aesthetic value. The image is actually from a postcard I had from middle school that I loved. It was a whole murder of crows, shot from underneath as they were taking off. There is actually one pigeon in the picture too. Which is pretty funny. The tattoo artist told me there was a different kind of bird, but I didn’t find out until later it was a pigeon…

The banner is lyrics from an Iron and Wine song. Iron and Wine is by neo-folk singer, Sam Beam. The songs are powerful, and though melancholy, the lyrics are amazing. This particular song reminds me of a friend of mine from high school. The work was done by Adam at Painless Tattoo.

I was a couple years older than my friend and I used to drive him home from school in the afternoons. He was a real quiet guy, but when we were in the car, he talked and talked. When I went to college, he was still in high school. He used to walk home because he didn’t like his mom picking him up. The way home was over two sets of train tracks. They were commuter trains.

One evening I was working on a theatre production, and they had just sent me out to usher people. There wasn’t really anyone to usher, so I was kind of standing around playing with this lighter I have. It always works, and I keep it full of fluid.

I kept checking my watch to see what time the performance was going to start. It was at 7:15 that my lighter stopped working. At 7:30, I looked outside and a huge group of crows all took off at the same time.

He was struck by a commuter train on the second set of tracks at 7:30 that night. He didn’t see it coming. He died instantly. My parents were informed right away, and I found out he died right at the time when the crows all flew away. The Iron and Wine song reminds me of all the things he didn’t get to do."

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