<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430959" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eating Together</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know my friend is going,<br>though she still sits there<br>across from me in the restaurant, <br>and leans over the table to dip<br>her bread in the oil on my plate; I know <br>how thick her hair used to be, <br>and what it takes for her to discard<br>her man’s cap partway through our meal, <br>to look straight at the young waiter <br>and smile when he asks<br>how we are liking it. She eats<br>as though starving—chicken, dolmata, <br>the buttery flakes of filo—<br>and what’s killing her<br>eats, too. I watch her lift<br>a glistening black olive and peel <br>the meat from the pit, watch<br>her fine long fingers, and her face, <br>puffy from medication. She lowers <br>her eyes to the food, pretending<br>not to know what I know. She’s going. <br>And we go on eating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kim+Addonizio">Kim Addonizio</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430959" data-title="Eating Together de Kim Addonizio" data-description="I know my friend is going, though she still sits there across from me in the restaurant, and leans over the table to dip her bread in the oil on my plate; I know how thick her hair used to be, and what it takes for her to discard her man’s ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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