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Curbside Ink is a series where our editor Jacob S. Knabb goes around to bars and bookfairs, sporting events and music festivals photographing tattoos and asking for the stories behind them.

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*Photo by Stephanie Bassos, Chicago-based photographer.

Franki Elliot is a 20-something author from Chicago and blogs for us every Monday.  Curbside published her first book Piano Rats (October 2011). We are publishing her second book in late spring 2013.  For more Franki typewriter stories visit http://frankielliottypewriter.tumblr.com/

Hey, if you're in Chicago this weekend, come by the Two With Water Rx Reading Series we co-host with Chicago Literary Arts Mag Two With Water.  We usually have this at Beauty Bar Chicago, but this time we're part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Fest going on in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, and so we're at Cole's Bar (2338 N. Milwaukee Ave.).  Three of this month's readers are contributors to CS Issue 3.  Come by!

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 At The Observatory

At the observatory, I can
watch all the water mills
of galaxies. I deny every
injury in me and long to see
not backward but to forward
cliffs. I think the consequence
of you is written into the structures
we cannot know but by candles
in our room. Do you unfurl for
me? No, rather it is starry in your
eyes naturally and I want you
to order all the murdering 
unstained from paper histories.
I deny sacredness
not born of your womb,
your hair the thousand
gestures of lovingness that
fall in gravity.

En el Observatorio

En el observatorio, puedo
contemplar las galaxias como
molinos acuosos. Niego el daño sufrido
y anhelo no mirar hacia atrás sino a los
acantilados futuros. Creo que tus efectosestán
escritos en estructuras de nuestra habitación
que no reconocemos sino a la luz de las velas.
¿Alcanzarás  tu plenitud en mi?
No, mas bien lo natural en tus ojos
es reflejar estrellas y quiero que exijas
que todos los asesinatos dejen sin mácula
los papeles de la historia. Niego lo sagrado
que no haya nacido de tu vientre,
tu pelo en mil
gestos de ternura
caen por lagravedad.

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Charles Bane Jr.

Curbside author Franki Elliot (of the lovely, gritty, raunchy, critically acclaimed Piano Rats) loves to type stories for strangers at the suggestion of a word.  She's been spending the sumer in Los Angeles and this past weekend took her vintage typewriter to Venice Beach.  The L.A. Weekly covered it.  Check out the article, read some of the stories she wrote, and better yet pick up yourself a copy of Piano Rats direct from us here or via Amazon Kindle here.  Find Franki online and request a story.

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http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/07/typewriter_stories_from_the_ve.php