You can’t not be seen
As if in a mask,
But how do you speak?
Do you try to speak
From it or through it?
You can’t not be false
Or two-faced, or half,
But do you lie in
Or out? When you see
You, do you see you?
Beast with words in it
That it earned from skulls
That learned from pure air
Is both one and none,
Is both whole and two,
Is both beast and you.
And which is the mask,
The speech or the flesh?
For whom does one speak
When one, two, or you?
The masks watch the masks.
The masks speak as beasts.
But how do you speak?
Do you try to speak
From us or through us?
