Places change.
Buildings change.
Food changes.
Language changes.

The script doesn't.

New streets.
Same roles.

Kind.
Polite.
Sweet.

Learned behavior.

The performance fits the place.

Scratch it
and the same fear appears.
The same self-protection.

Culture decorates.
Nothing underneath changes.

Thought compares.
This is nicer.
That is worse.

Novelty hides the machinery.

When it wears off,
nothing new is found.