Unite behind the wonders of humanity:
kindness, generosity, despair, malice,
religion, cookery books, science degrees,
wistfulness, stupidity…
I mean, I could go on, but you probably
have a sandwich to finish or a poem to ignore.
Most of all, though:
trying to make ourselves look good in the eyes of others,
when, as Oscar Wilde said, ‘The one thing in life
we never know is how other people see us.’
Although that’s not entirely true:
they see us as they want to see us,
and that’s something a little easier to unearth, possibly.
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