strangers



sometimes we tell secrets to ourselves
sometimes we tell them to friends

i prefer
to tell my darkest secrets
to absolute
strangers

and then laugh
as i see them
float into the wind

i like talking to strangers
becuase they have something
nice about them and
tabla rasa

often means
you get away
with being really funny

i don't know
maybe it is just because of the movies
and the idea of how two people meet

and the blossoming of friendship

like this morning
when i found myself face to face
with a complete stranger
hunched over the ground
in the center of the city street

each
tying
his own

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