Masquerade

Or... here's looking at you, politicians.

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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

In the hall of shifting lights,  
where laughter pirouettes on marble floors  
and music coils through the air  
like a serpent of silk,  
I enter  
another guest among the masked,  
my face hidden behind painted porcelain,  
My eyes peer…