Fine line tattoo design of four birds in flight above the script lettering life is a beautiful struggle, shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.

Four birds above a script quote

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A black line drawing of four small birds in flight sits above the handwritten phrase life is a beautiful struggle in a cursive script. The linework is thin and even, with the birds rendered in solid dark silhouette and the lettering in a fine continuous stroke. The design is shown alone on a plain white background, centred with generous space around it.

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Dear Tom, The wheel stuck again at Doncaster, halfway up, with Mrs Okafor's grandson swinging in the top car shouting that he could see the sea. I had the spanner in my teeth and Dad's old grease gun in my other hand, and I thought, this is the beautiful struggle he used to paint on the ticket hut, all looping tails and no sense. You never liked that sign.

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We got it turning again by dusk. Four starlings came over the car park while the generator coughed, flying in that loose wedge they make, and they dropped onto the grass by the cattle pens as if someone had told them to wait. Mum always said they were the fair's own birds, that they followed the lorries from town to town and never once got lost. I counted them twice to be sure. Four, same as the summer the big top came down in the wind.

The buyer wants the hut for a coffee stall, so the sign comes down at Wakefield. I unscrewed the letters myself, the b and the f and the long tail of the g, and wrapped them in the tarpaulin with the spare bulbs. I've kept the s from struggle back for you, because you were always the one who held the ladder steady while Dad worked the top loops.

The birds had gone by morning. Come to Blackpool in August and we'll hang it on the wall of your flat, slightly crooked, and you can tell me again that it doesn't mean anything. Love, Nell.

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