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(Hammill) |
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He's a man of the past and one of the present, a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask; a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down or that the game is all about who laughs the last. |
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So he tells all his problems to his friends and relations, exposes his neuroses to their view. |
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They accept as fact every masochistic mumble of his act-- how could they know what was false and what was true? |
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Sometimes when he wakes he feels he's walked into a dream but all it takes to remind him things are what they seem is the belief that the man behind the mask can really dance |
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Pirouetting smile he sees himself cavorting, |
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Pierrot for a while before aborting to find relief in the shelter of the dark, most telling mask. |
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After all the pantomimes are ended he peels all the make-up off his face to reveal, beneath, the tears running all down his cheeks: alone, he opens to the world...but it's much too late. |
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He's been left, in the end, without a face. |
