By kevin urenda
Date: 1 September 2000

still picking at that thread

About half of the rest of the people in this world
convince themselves they love a person they have idealized, invented
and when they awake one day to find someone they do not even know
sleeping next to them they are surprised
yet they too lament that they have managed to have faith
in something they never had any intention of seeing as it really is

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