< double-embossed Kevlar face shield model 37 >

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  it's Texas
  (on the bridge to Galveston)
  and my
  double-embossed Kevlar face shield
  (model 37)
  wraps my face
  as my hand reaches out
  and opens a door to the east coast
  just wide enough
  to shout through
  and i
  shout anything that might stop you
  but you're just a picture
  wrapped across my face
  a picture
  busy telling me:    
 
    "your face
     all pieces now
     gray, white, black
     i spent my afternoons
     cutting us
     like a movie
     and the evenings
     spreading us out    
    
     great reels of us    
     trying to line them up    
     fit them    
     fix them    
     the beginnings    
     the ends"    
    
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