Black ink lettering reading Lenny=white and Carl=black tattooed on a palm, shown above a cartoon hand with the same text.

Lenny=white and Carl=black tattoo on palm

Lettering · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

The lower photo shows two lines of hand-lettered text, Lenny=white and Carl=black, in black ink on the palm. The upper panel is a yellow cartoon hand with the same two lines written across it in a similar hand. The tattoo is shown in black and grey with a plain, close framing.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sweet pea seeds came in two brown envelopes, and by the Tuesday I had forgotten which was which. So I wrote it on my hand in biro, the way Mum used to write the shopping on her wrist: Lenny=white, Carl=black. Lenny Oduya had the plot by the water butt and a temper about his runner beans. Carl Pryce had the one with the crooked shed and a laugh you could hear over the railway.

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Nobody on the allotment trusted the committee to keep a straight line, and nobody trusted Carl to keep a secret. He had told everyone about the fence post Lenny moved in March, and by June the two of them were speaking only through the secretary, like a pair of ambassadors who hated the same hotel. I was meant to hand out the seed on the Saturday and stay out of it.

On Saturday the rain came in sideways. I pressed my palm to the wet wood of the bench to steady myself and felt the ink smear under my thumb. For a moment the words ran together, Lenny and Carl and white and black, and I stood there thinking a name on the skin is only as good as the weather.

Then I laughed, because the white flowers had already come up in Carl's row, and the black ones, dark as a bruise, were climbing Lenny's fence. I wiped my palm on my jeans. Both packets were still in my pocket, and I could read every word on them without looking.