<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Orlando's Cafe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit alone on a black painted chair<br>putting my elbow on the black painted table<br>fronting a gray painting of a man<br>gathering rice<br>a Romano, <br>i wait<br>i close my eyes<br>to a cat nap<br>i hear the conversations<br>but i am not interested<br>of people on the other table<br>i imagine two lovers, a fat woman and<br>a skinny man<br>sharing spaghetti and coke<br>while a mother with a white skin<br>feeds a small slice of pizza<br>to her English speaking girl<br>who keeps on saying<br>that she changed her mind<br>into not eating another piece<br>of that Hawaiian menu, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the fat woman looks at me<br>wanting to tell me<br>why i am lonely <br>as though<br>when one sits and eats alone<br>signifies nothing<br>but loneliness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i could have told her<br>it is not the case<br>that i in turn suspects that<br>the skinny man<br>perhaps is the loneliest<br>man <br>sitting watching a <br>fat and unattractive woman<br>before him<br>at Orlando's Cafe....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">surprisingly i realize<br>i have become a man of few words<br>actually<br>i am too mindful of myself then<br>conscious<br>that throughout that time<br>i never uttered<br>a word</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is my mind that does the talking<br>as though<br>everyone who are there<br>are all the more lonely<br>as i try to capture<br>them all<br>within the framework<br>of some<br>consonants...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=491758" data-title="Orlando's Cafe de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="I sit alone on a black painted chair putting my elbow on the black painted table fronting a gray painting of a man gathering rice a Romano, i wait i close my eyes to a cat nap i hear the conversations but i am not interested of people on the othe..."></div> </div> </div>

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