Maggie's Farm

jappy ... I wonder about young people who get large and disfiguring tattoos myself. When they're fresh, and the skin under them firm, they look like graffiti. Hardly pleasing, but at least you can tell what they're supposed to represent. When the skin on which they're engraved gets old and wrinkly and saggy, however, they are really ugly. From the promontory of old age, I look at young people and delight in their beauty and youth. Even the ones with rather plain features are pleasing. They don't even know what's going to happen, poor dears. Why complicate matters by engraving their skin with strange symbols which will fade and distort over the years so few can tell what they used to resemble.

But then, no one thinks they are going to change.

Marianne