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I Want to Be a Stranger

Dear stranger! I want to turn into you,
You must be the one, she never looks at nor speaks at, (yet, you would be
      addressed politely and even respected,)
It would never occur to her to insult you, and to think of you as she knows
      everything or anything about you,
You could be her doctor, or lawyer, or therapist – her authority figure she
      seeks for advice, trusts, you’ll get paid in return,
You would stand by her in the tramcar, watch outside from the very same
      window, accidentally rub hips, shoulders with her, or bump your bags,
You are some face on a cover of a paper or a magazine, someone recognisable,
      yet unreachable – someone never expected to be met,
You surely live the modern man life, eat the same, sleep the same, wear clothes
      the same, go places, and buy stuff the same,
I am you and I am not you, as I was her trusted confidant and she was to me
      too,
I am to her a different kind of stranger now, and to her I am not me.



inspiration taken from To a Stranger, Calamus by Walt Whitman
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