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Draw on my skin

07-18-2010 at 07:31:04 AM

Draw on my skin

I wrote my life story through the tattoo process in my poem - Draw on my skin

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.