- Keith Banner
Face Masks
face masks are the new litter
that's ok it comes with the territory
they kind of look like
little sky-blue pieces of underwear
star wars diapers
they don't make me sad
they make me wonder why
and then again they are everywhere
like movie stars are everywhere
instagram and people magazine and dreams you have
during sad little 2 o'clock naps when it rains
like diamond rings on the fingers of movie stars
or even let's just cut to the chase
face masks on movie stars
all that cosmetic surgery
covered up for the sake of not
getting it
it's really all ok
they say it came from
inside some stressed-out
wet-market
mammal
poor creature
butchered next to a can
of fanta organge soda
the sound of a radio in the
background i'm thinking
99 luft balloons
and we all need to eat
that's the sad thing
air-born
something not even cronenberg could make you believe
just a goddamn
thingy thing
moving through air and into
nostrils, eyes, mouths
sometimes
i remember the moment before
on the edge of it
the complete banality of blood and
water
paper napkins cash registers
etc
the moment before
it knew
what it was
innocent sort of
like a bumble-bee
looking for
a flower
