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 for people?—

penetrating?—if you mean

I’m rotting here—

I’m an alewife

the fish the seagull

has no taste for

I die along the shore

and send a bad smell in

As praiseworthy

The power of breathing (Epictetus)

while we sleep.  Add:

to move the parts of the body

without sound

and to float 

on a smooth green stream

in a silent boat