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When you read this poem, I think you'll understand why <hr> </font></font></font><center> <img src="../themes/Brittania/images/logo.gif" width="145" height="29" border="2"><p>To read an interview with Jonathan on the UK Authors website, on the event of his being voted UKA's Writer of the Month, please click logo<br></p><hr><center> <a href="http://www.leonardcohen.com/"><b>LEONARD COHEN</b> </a><p>For the official Leonard Cohen website, click title, or for back-catalogue on Amazon, click <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006MLRL/laurahirdso01-21">here</a><br><br></p><hr> <a href="http://www.vonnegut.com/"><b>KURT VONNEGUT</b><p> </p></a>Click image to enter the official website of writer, Kurt Vonnegut, or for work by Vonnegut available on Amazon, click <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140285601/laurahirdso01-21">here</a><br><hr> <a href="http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camus.htm"> <img src="../corduroy/images/camus.gif" width="76" height="106" border="2" align="right"></a>For Albert Camus homepages, biographies, bibliographies, text, essays, reviews etc, click image, or for work available on Amazon, click <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140278516/laurahirdso01-21">here</a><br><hr> For the official Akira Kurasawa database website with links to the official fan page, click image, or to view Kurasawa's films on Amazon, click <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D04C/laurahirdso01-21">here</a><br><hr> <a href="http://www.expectingrain.com/"> </a>For the excellent Bob Dylan site, Expecting Rain, click image, or to view his enormous back catalogue on Amazon, click <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025OIN/laurahirdso01-21">here</a><br> <td width="70%" valign="top" bgcolor="FFCC66"> <font size="3" font="Times New Roman"><br><br> <br> </font><center><font color="red"><h3> <b> 'TATOOS'<br>by Jonathan Stone </b></h3></font><br><p><br> Well I like your latest tattoo<br> how you wash it for the first few days<br> and twitch, wrenlike, when it's touched <br> Looks good on your cool waist </p><p> As far as religion goes I've only one commandment: <br> that I'll never stain any part of me <br> the way you have done. <br> I'm trying to keep my body clean and slender <br> for the crow-footed, veiny-eyed whelk <br> set to inherit it some day </p><p> You'll know him when he comes, if you last that long <br> The ill-tempered zot will destroy all my work <br> (to him it's pigswill - to me it's a perfect style,)<br> and no doubt hobnob with Leslie Epstein, <br> rewrite my epitaph, torment my children<br> etc. <br> He'll hate me for my contentment <br> and for spending so long in second-hand bookshops </p><p> Nevertheless, <br> for this sycophant, I am keeping <br> my body unmarked and tidy, <br> tattooing pages for his firewood <br> and memorising your milky hip </p><p> He can never say I wasn't generous <br> <br> <br></p><center> <font color="red"> <b>© Jonathan Stone</b> <br> Reproduced with permission</font></center><br><br> <hr><br><br><b><h3><font color="red">JONATHAN'S TOP 5 TOPICS FOR ARGUMENT:</font></h3></b></center><p></p><blockquote><blockquote> 1. 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