a mask needs eyes but not too many
the night sky for example has far too many eyeholes while an ampersand may not have enough
the best masks have growth rings and crows’ feet and need to be read to every night before bed
a mask is alive the way a dead stump is alive: teeming with transients
it’s there for you the way god or a cat is: for as long as you keep filling its bowl
its first word will take the shape of a silverfish
