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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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