Lamont Palmer - Dolled Up

Nervous lines from an eyebrow pencil
Work to cover-up the initial travail.
Its an escape to zeal, through obfuscation, to
Judge where we live or think of living;
To fight any and all clownish glee;
I recall the mask you deigned to paint on.

Lamont Palmer

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