Everyday545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxS2JAuRnN
I put on this great little homemade mask. 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9C1tOgWaQ
cracked papier mache,545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0C1mNJsMTG
cheery smiling face.
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and everyday you walk past.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zrt03Pz1s
the hand holding the mask trembles but545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7O3sc3j8R
stays, firmish, like some lone priest 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3k09QU8xZ
at some abandoned temple, the frail figure 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXUK2u2AzD
who amidst those tourists545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaU1QKI0CGL
is the only one left who believes in the gods 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWEmNJd5Ia
his precious church was built to exalt.
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smiling545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAfc3l7qI2
happy545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrgq5G1Oq4
looking ahead545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKLJfKw8ab
please don’t touch that.
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we want to get that mask off, right545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKIfOb9Sv6
but lost in those surging waves of inky, shrieking, metaphors545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRvQyDERnA
and the neverending tears from a splattered brush of fingers 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkRpV2T3Lh
and gross bloody tendons dripping from a heart onto the carpet545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06Tup7d2r5
the mask clutches me in terror.
It’d be cruel to take it off now, in this storm. I need to keep it safe545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lhhlRIckx
sheltered from rain that patters away at it545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgh5jdni3K
—gnawing. Little sparkling fangs ripping out fibres.
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Maybe later, though,545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Vz2cIckAu
when the sun comes out again,545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrem274eLHi
I'll throw the mask away, into the fluffy air545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOJptasW20
kiss it goodbye545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgWLj4Ff6W
and skip, childlike, into the warmth of something happy.
