Monday, December 5, 2011

Magpie Tales 94 - Isolation

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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25 comments:

  1. Oh, we are sort of on the same track this week. I like yours. Cheers.

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  2. I 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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  3. And it's so sad, isn't it. Your prose is so raw in its truth. very sad indeed.

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  4. Wow, great image and connection with the poem. Good emotion.
    William

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  5. 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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  6. A mouth full in a small bite....great writing Jacqui!!

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  7. Well-said! Excellent take on this MAgpie, Jacqui!

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  8. isolation is a very scary identity to one's own being... you have spoken well..

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  9. This is so true. If I eat alone (with strangers) I buy a newspaper to bury my head in.

    Anna :o]

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  10. My daughter lives in NY and it's very typical to eat alone in the city...not so much here in the Midwest...

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