Wax Paper People

 

Wax Paper People

Prancing in Hollywood

With bright, sunny colors

That wash off when they are done

 

Wax Paper People

Donning bright flashy masks

Vibrant, garish colors

Grasping hands reach in vain

 

Wax Paper People

Shake their heads at them

Them that wish to hide

Behind a Wax Paper Mask

 

Wax Paper People

Whose footsteps are adored

Whose movements are imitated

Whose lives are photographed

 

Wax Paper People

Insults bounce off their Wax Paper Skin

But not their flesh and blood

Which is weakened by underuse

 

Wax Paper People

Who look as they were shining

No one would dare challenge them

In all their celluloid glory

 

Wax Paper People

Who when they grow unhappy

Do the unthinkable

Rip their Wax Paper Masks

 

Wax Paper People

Their masks in tattered ruination

They sigh and shrug and walk away

And come back with a brand new mask

 

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