Walk again
on the well-known roads
to see
people vastly variant
from our expectations
(to shock them
by shattering,
their expectations).
And discover again
(with contrived surprise)
that the world is
no longer the same...
It is fun, isn’t it,
to find
that no one is quite the same,
now was
(nor will be)...
To know that they are,
nevertheless,
the same within...
And -
the willful satisfaction -
of knowing
that tomorrow
(or day after)
will washed away the practiced lies
that we try on each other!
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