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My face slips & slides defy permanence. You cannot grasp. Cannot understand. My flesh keeps moving. My features are mobile. Without permanence. You cannot name. This is my plan. Keep you guessing. You are furious. Cannot label. I deny ease. I throw away papers. Without name you cannot find. I spell world backwards. Who are you? What is your name? Passport & photo ID. I throw image into the sea, release to the wind. I am frozen under snow, carried on an eagle's wing. I am invisible. I reinvent. This fate suits me. You peer into every. You absent of grace. Your punishment is delay. We all look same. Our talk sound strange. Interpret you cannot. Ice ignores borders. Finds own way. Tell me negotiators, map-makers. Whose side this rock? This piece of sky? Now is all mine. I draw my face in the clouds. See my eyes, my mouth, my brow. You beauty blind. Nameless I can wait forever. You stamp on each image. Know only constrain. You spy in the sky. You database. You identikit. You long lens shot. You lose face. You lost.
© Sue Moss
