Herbert Nehrlich - Well?

What if the world
was made up of
the lovely people.
I could name names
and point them out.
But what the heck
it matters not,
for in the end
they've gone to buy
make-up mascara
to fool the world.
I've only got
myself, at that.

Herbert Nehrlich

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