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Index
Cover
The Body Adorned… In Fact and Fiction
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Epigraph
from The Illustrated Man
A Toda Máquina
Grapefruit Flesh
Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt
My Tattoo
To the Engraver of My Skin
Dyeing a Three-Dollar Bill
from “The White Knights”
Skin
“When I was a kid…”
For Lysa, Who Tattoos Me in Her Miami Living Room
Lace
Triangle Tattoo
It’s Bad Luck to Die
from The Tattoo Hunter
Incision
“After the surgery…”
First Poem for You
Snakes
Parker’s Back
“In 1992, I had the tattoo on my arm redone…”
Zowie
“I got my tattoo at a time of great upheaval…”
“I’d wanted to get one for years…”
Tattoo Pantoum
It Only Hurts a Little
Tattoos
from Typee
from 7 Tattoos
Embellishments
Tattoo Thoughts
The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle
Herstory
“I bring my book—prepared to wait…”
from Tree
Becoming Bird
Designing a Bird from Memory in Jack’s Skin Kitchen
Second Skin
Portrait
“When I muse about tattoos…”
In the Penal Colony
Convict K00457
Mando
The News
The Y
from “The Life and Death of Philippe”
True Tattoo
“I do not have a tattoo…”
Wings, Fish, Star
Benediction
Contributors
Permissions
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