I sometimes recognize an enemy
Among strangers.
But it comes expensive,
When I have met him

On a level road
Among countrymen.
Greater than one’s own kin
There are no enemies.

Than family near ones,
Than close neighbors,
Than one’s own in Tandem*…
Whoever lies nearby,
Sits
Or rides.
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*Tandem — an e-app for communicating by correspondence and in group chats.