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    Order For Masks

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    The speaker requests three masks from Billiken for the three men in her life - her brother, father, and lover. For her brother, she wants a mask that is his opposite to disguise their resemblance. For her father, she wants a mask that makes her appear as his innocent child. For her lover, she wants a mask that changes shape in his hands, concealing her true face from him.

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    The speaker requests three masks from Billiken for the three men in her life - her brother, father, and lover. For her brother, she wants a mask that is his opposite to disguise their resemblance. For her father, she wants a mask that makes her appear as his innocent child. For her lover, she wants a mask that changes shape in his hands, concealing her true face from him.

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    The speaker requests three masks from Billiken for the three men in her life - her brother, father, and lover. For her brother, she wants a mask that is his opposite to disguise their resemblance. For her father, she wants a mask that makes her appear as his innocent child. For her lover, she wants a mask that changes shape in his hands, concealing her true face from him.

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    The speaker requests three masks from Billiken for the three men in her life - her brother, father, and lover. For her brother, she wants a mask that is his opposite to disguise their resemblance. For her father, she wants a mask that makes her appear as his innocent child. For her lover, she wants a mask that changes shape in his hands, concealing her true face from him.

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    Order for Masks

    by Virginia R. Moreno

    To this harlequinade
    I wear black tights
    and fool’s cap
    Billiken, make me
    three bright masks

    For the three tasks


    in my life
    Three faces to wear
    One after the other
    For the three men in
    my life.

    When my Brother comes


    Make me one opposite
    If he is devil, a
    saint
    With a staff to his
    fork
    And for his horns, a
    crow.

    I hope by contrast
    To make nil
    Our old resemblance
    to each other
    And my twin will walk
    me out
    Without a frown
    Pretending I am
    another.

    When my Father comes


    Make me one so like
    His child once eating
    his white bread in trance
    Philomela before she
    was raped.

    I hope by likeness
    To make him believe
    this is the same kind
    The chaste face he
    made

    And my blind Lear


    will walk me out
    Without a word
    Fearing to peer
    behind.

    If my lover comes
    Yes, when my Seducer
    comes
    Make for me the face
    That will in colors race
    The carnival stars
    And change in shape
    Under his grasping hands.
    Make it bloody
    When he needs it white
    Make it wicked in the dark
    Let him find no old mark
    Make it stone to his suave touch.
    This magician will walk me out,

    Newly loved,
    Not knowing why my tantalizing face
    Is strangely like the mangled parts of a face
    He once wiped out.
    Make me three masks.

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