Where did love go?

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future is unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified versions of a half-imagined past.

— Alan Moore, Watchmen.

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Was willst du?

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He and she were having afternoon tea.

Opposite each other they were,

Sat by the shores of a beautiful sea.

"Coffee or tea—"

He asked,

"What do you see?"

"If you ask me,"

She replied.

"It is exactly what you want it to be."

He turned to face the quay.

Silence.

She sipped on her coffee.

"Your answer, Milady."

He chuckled,

"Now that is reality."

Away from the crowd, the noise, the city,

There was no one else thinking this hard

Except for he and she.

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Kaffee, Tee oder mich?

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M.

when all is said and done.