There are not enough faces. Your own gapes back at you on someone else, but paler, then the moment when you see the next one and forget yourself.
It must be dreams that makes us different, must be private cells inside a common skull. One has the other's look and has another memory.
Despair stares out from tube-trains at itself running on the platform for the closing door. Everyone you meet is telling wordless barefaced truths.
Sometimes the crowd yields one you put a name to, snapping fiction into fact. Mostly your lover passes in the rain and does not know you when you speak.
