MASK

WORDS AS MASK

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.  [1]

WORDS AS  WINDOW

God has entrusted me with myself.  [2]

MASK AS  WINDOW 

[3]

MASK AS WORDS

 [4]

KEY:

[1]  BARACK OBAMA, 6-3-08

[2]  EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, c. 108 A.D.

[3]  JAMES ENSOR, MASKS CONFRONTING DEATH, 1888, MOMA, NYC

[4]  CORPORATE "WORD CLOUD"

City Talk (Excerpt) -- Lorine Niedecker

II.

I’m good forpeople?—

penetrating?—ifyou mean

I’m rottinghere—

I’m analewife

the fish theseagull

has no tastefor

I die alongthe shore

and send abad smell in

Aspraiseworthy

The power ofbreathing (Epictetus)

while we sleep.  Add:

to move theparts of the body

withoutsound

and to float 

on a smooth green stream

in a silent boat