<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0009 Railway Restaurant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The staff behind the bar<br>freely exchanging comments<br>in their language you don't understand<br>stare blatantly at you<br>as if you are a travelling zoo -<br>that's their perks; that and the odd<br>pick-up; why else should they work here? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waiters<br>take the orders, lay the plates<br>with silent scorn, concealed disdain<br>- and, perhaps, a hint of compassion? <br>no, I think not.. how, they seem to wonder, <br>could any foreigner be so ignorant<br>as to eat here? <br>The drained ghosts of vegetables, and<br>would m'sieu like his meat<br>insulted lightly, heavily, or mediumly? <br>They long ago exhausted their pity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their compassion is reserved<br>for their fellow nationals -<br>they know that some strong reason<br>obliges them to eat here - perhaps<br>a funeral in the provinces. There's<br>the shadow of an implied shrug<br>as they lay the plates<br>with ancient formality, <br>take the redeeming order<br>for alcohol in which all sins are dissolved, forgiven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they're secret students of humanity; <br>they may discuss you and your strange behaviour<br>when they get home to a leisurely meal, <br>(a fine cut of meat beneath their jacket) : <br>dream of opening a small restaurant<br>somewhere in the provinces; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they'd miss you, though; <br>for anatomists, <br>friends are no substitute for strangers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460400" data-title="0009 Railway Restaurant de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The staff behind the bar freely exchanging comments in their language you don't understand stare blatantly at you as if you are a travelling zoo - that's their perks; that and the odd pick-up; why else should they work here? The waiters take the..."></div> </div> </div>

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