película

Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discrete, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air must acquire a cuticle, and it is not urged against cuticles that they are not hearts
George Santayana

[...] more and more enamored of the selves their clients impute to them.

Goffman, Erving - The presentation of self in everyday life

Where have you been? Been searchin' all along
Came facin' twilight on and on without a clue
Without a sign, without grasping yet
The real question to be asked
- Where have I been?

 I'm a shapeshifter at Poe's masquerade
Hidin' both face and mind, all free for you to draw
I'm a shapeshifter, what else should I be?
Please don't take off my mask, revealin' dark

Rike Schmalz

sair (2)

O osso do osso eu ruí 

A brasa ardente eu muí 

Dos dentes da boca a dor vicia 

Mortes da morte eu morri 

E a pele da pele eu vesti 

Saí sem deixar uma só saída.

Jards Macalé

Sin el perdón de las aguas no puedo vivir. Sin el mármol final del cielo no puedo morir.

Pizarnik

eyes struck by you until they bled

one eye left to the scattered flowers

one eye never to leave this city’s iron gates

             a black well

Hai Zi