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I quite love the way people seem. In truth, I love it more than I could ever love the people themselves. They’re simply knick-knacks to me, Wonderful to look at and admire, But lacking any true value or charm. Surely, I love the way their eyes twinkle in the sun, And their tongues brush their teeth when they talk, And its all fine and amusing and well, But that is all. I don’t care to know their ugliness, Unless they’ll let me romanticize that as well. And they won’t, They’ll be too ugly, too true, So I may not even want to. So I’ll observe from afar And love them with no real context or substance. They’re only beautiful until I know them, And although that superficiality is not true beauty, It is all I seek-- After all, nobody cares what art is made of as long as they like the way it looks through their cloudy lens.
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Apr 7, 2022
Apr 7, 2022 at 1:51 PM UTC
Superficial
I quite love the way people seem. In truth, I love it more than I could ever love the people themselves. They’re simply knick-knacks to me, Wonderful to look at and admire, But lacking any true value or charm. Surely, I love the way their eyes twinkle in the sun, And their tongues brush their teeth when they talk, And its all fine and amusing and well, But that is all. I don’t care to know their ugliness, Unless they’ll let me romanticize that as well. And they won’t, They’ll be too ugly, too true, So I may not even want to. So I’ll observe from afar And love them with no real context or substance. They’re only beautiful until I know them, And although that superficiality is not true beauty, It is all I seek-- After all, nobody cares what art is made of as long as they like the way it looks through their cloudy lens.
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Apr 7, 2022
Apr 7, 2022 at 1:51 PM UTC
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