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| Lunch by George Tooker |
Isolation
Not natural
to eat
with a pack that is not yours.
We share
bread
only with our friends.
And eat
totally alone
when surrounded by strangers.
J. Binford-Bell
December 2011
I dined with friends last night. The experience was so dynamically different than George Tooker's painting. I live in a near wilderness surrounded by open space. But once I lived in a crowded city and took of food in crowded diners. Never I think was I so alone. So are all of Tooker's diners.
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Oh, we are sort of on the same track this week. I like yours. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteI had never given much thought to what it feels like eating among strangers ... your poem made me take a look. Nice.
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nice connection to the pack...yes in a strange pack the wolf tends to guard its food...hmm...perhaps we are not much different...
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