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A verb may well conceal a noun.
A noun may conceal a fiddler beetle.
A beetle may conceal an agnostic.
An agnostic may conceal a shepherd’s pie.
A shepherd may conceal your mother-in-law.
Your mother-in-law may conceal a can of pineapple rings.
Or she might not conceal them at all.
A can of pineapple rings may well conceal the blue of his eye before he.
The blue of his eye may well conceal a cast-iron All Nighter wood stove.
A stove may conceal the emissions of seven city buses.
Seven city buses may conceal a bamboo mat.
A mat made of bamboo may conceal a malapropism.
A malaprop may well conceal one clever emendation.
One emendation may conceal an abiding sadness.
Or it might not conceal it at all.
An abiding sadness may conceal a slow-turning Ferris wheel.
A Ferris wheel may conceal a spark of agitation.
A spark of agitation may well conceal a prowling libido.
Or it might not conceal it at all.
A spark of agitation may also conceal a mouth.
Regret may conceal the smoky sheen of oak.
The sheen of oak may conceal a monk as he fetches water.
A monk may conceal the pleasure of eating each section of an orange, slowly.
The pleasure of orange-eating may conceal the links in a chain fence.
A chain-link fence may well conceal syntax.
Syntax may well conceal rhetoric.
Rhetoric may conceal ideology.
Ideology may conceal a hunger for bright objects.
Or it might not conceal it at all.
Bright objects may well conceal a lust for someone else’s wife.
A lust for someone else’s wife may conceal a fiddler beetle. Or not at all.