Close crop of a torso showing a fine line black script tattoo reading paciencia on the side ribs, above light denim shorts.

Fine line script phrase on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close crop of a torso in a black bralette and pale blue distressed denim shorts, with one hand resting on the hip. A thin black script line runs along the side of the ribs and reads paciencia, tanto p, with the end cut off by the frame. The linework is fine and even, with the ink set against warm skin tones and a plain white background.

Fine line Lettering Ribs Script Phrase Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ward Nine went quiet at three, the way it always does, as if the building had decided to hold its breath until the early shift arrived with wet umbrellas and bad coffee. I was counting morphine in the treatment room when my grandmother's voice came up through the bleach smell. Paciencia, mija, tanto poco tiempo. Patience, child, there is so little time. She said it over bread dough and washing pegs, as though the two jobs were the same.

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Bed four had been asking for his shoes since midnight. Mr Okafor was ninety-one and certain he had a train to catch to Enugu, though he had not left Leeds since 1974. I sat on the edge of the mattress and read him his daughter's letter, the one posted from Lagos with a stamp that had a heron on it. He liked the heron. He made me read that bit twice, then closed his eyes and said a heron does not hurry, and neither should a man who is waiting for a train.

At half past four the sky over the car park turned the colour of dishwater and the first porter came rattling along the corridor with his trolley. I went back to the desk, found a biro, and on the back of a drug chart I wrote her words out properly, the way she taught me, with the loops leaning forward as if in a hurry. My hand got as far as tanto p before the paper ran out at the edge of the sheet.

I left it there. Some sentences are finished by whoever comes after, and I thought the rest could wait for the morning shift.