don't forget your bag of rocks and mask, honey

it used

to be that if you were a bad

person,

a nefarious character

up to no good

or

about to rob

a bank

or someone

you wore a mask to hide

your identity

or perhaps you wore

one to ward

off disease, the cold

or flu,

or in spreading germs,

but times

have changed.

everyone in a riot 

or protest wears one.