Self-Portrait

I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows
despite the well-known laws of optics.
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.

- A. K. Ramanujan
Reposted from Peter Griffin
Share with us short (fits-in-one-skeet short) poems you love?

(Any language, but if you want to be kind to unilingual me, then a rough translation if the poem’s not in English, please?)

I’ll add some in this thread to start off.

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