Everyday493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCGOB7OyiS
I put on this great little homemade mask. 493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeHNsPqhg1
cracked papier mache,493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpopgKk4wdl
cheery smiling face.
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and everyday you walk past.493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYvJvP492i
the hand holding the mask trembles but493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLN9Vt5sgGP
stays, firmish, like some lone priest 493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWepfmoQtkT
at some abandoned temple, the frail figure 493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvyTWbfF9u
who amidst those tourists493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTeqTQq5FP
is the only one left who believes in the gods 493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMOtWbMLNa
his precious church was built to exalt.
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smiling493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3a2Vki4Y1
happy493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE03VBSHVps
looking ahead493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKOeP1CIIn
please don’t touch that.
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we want to get that mask off, right493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBBYd1n8zd
but lost in those surging waves of inky, shrieking, metaphors493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiZqTAlOMW
and the neverending tears from a splattered brush of fingers 493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVE07YETpK
and gross bloody tendons dripping from a heart onto the carpet493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuBQlszVhI
the mask clutches me in terror.
It’d be cruel to take it off now, in this storm. I need to keep it safe493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapy9CLvkLy
sheltered from rain that patters away at it493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9SJS8NtRK
—gnawing. Little sparkling fangs ripping out fibres.
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Maybe later, though,493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguv4py9eeB
when the sun comes out again,493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjidoC1Kkk
I'll throw the mask away, into the fluffy air493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABhCnIPtpd
kiss it goodbye493Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblHzTECg8d
and skip, childlike, into the warmth of something happy.
