<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>the man sitting alone at the cafeteria of Perpetual Succor Hosptal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he is black, native Filipino<br>wears a coat, white polo shirt<br>fat and big tummy<br>sipping coffee and alone<br>a book on the right side of his table<br>he is not reading it<br>an attache case is on his left leg<br>he is at the side of the glass window<br>of the second floor of this hospital run by nuns<br>below is the garden of palm trees and <br>grass and perennial violets and vietnam roses<br>he is not taking any breakfast<br>perhaps he is waiting for someone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i sit over a corner fronting him<br>i am observing the details of his existence<br>i know it is another sad story<br>but he is not talking about it<br>i know there is no use <br>what for is sharing another story<br>about life's tragedy? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">will it be another story of a husband<br>contemplating about his next move<br>what to do with a wife stricken with<br>breast cancer at stage 4? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i look around <br>there is another man in shorts<br>riding on a wheel chair<br>pushed by a woman in her forties</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an old woman, a child crying, etc. etc. etc.</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=494698" data-title="The man sitting alone at the cafeteria of Perpetual Succor Hosptal de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="he is black, native Filipino wears a coat, white polo shirt fat and big tummy sipping coffee and alone a book on the right side of his table he is not reading it an attache case is on his left leg he is at the side of the glass window of the secon..."></div> </div> </div>

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