adults
obey
perform
buy their kids
deceptive masks
that absorb ' made by nature'
kids' faces
and kids now act their false appearances
acting out as if sincerity parades in public spaces
then train to go begging door to door
merely kids only kids the only non-adults
as if newly minted pagans
converted innocence
training in the art of begging
and so does the enemy train behind masks
to never to disobey any bosses' orders
yet the real enemy
laughs and laughs and hides and hides
behind
the dramaturgical calendar
that true and cruel Master of the Ritual the Repeatable
turning adults
into true marionettes
that must keep on performing
they must obey
like their never again innocent kids