Play a Day: Blank Slate

by Dafne Cholet via Flickr Creative Commons
by Dafne Cholet via Flickr Creative Commons

Maybe

The reason I have never gotten a tattoo

Is a hold-over

From my days as an actress.

The desire

To be a blank slate.

Inhabiting the skin of another on a whim

Without any brands to give me away.

Who’s to say who I am?

I could be anyone.

Anywhere.

Anytime.

Never wanting to hold on to any one identity for too long.

Unsure of a statement about myself which could be definitive.

Still learning to be comfortable in a skin free of adornment.

Unwilling to part with my chameleon-like ways.

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