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When all roads led to Rome,

unRoman ways

made inroads

into Rome

so Rome’s ways changed.

Now when

strangers go

to Rome,

to do what Romans do,

neither they

nor Romans know

what Romans do, to do,

some even deeming

it unRoman

they once knew.

”Paul Lake

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