<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569435" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prayer at Dinner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">dinner was an examination<br>with little talk. each dish<br>a memory, forced together, <br>holding on to the plate<br>with butter and sugar<br>dad sips dark beer from bottles.<br>mom washes cake down the drain.<br>brothers smoke pot out of sight.<br>a dog chews on golf shoes.<br>a family above the mantle smiles<br>sitting in the backyard grass<br>the sun shining from behind them<br>a different dog, now dead, behaving.<br>thoughts of 'what should be said, <br>that hasn't been said (or can't be said) ? '<br>and always the tapping feet, <br>running wild under the table<br>nudging the languid dog, <br>worried at the time they pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sam+Stine">Sam Stine</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=569435" data-title="Prayer at Dinner de Sam Stine" data-description="dinner was an examination with little talk. each dish a memory, forced together, holding on to the plate with butter and sugar dad sips dark beer from bottles. mom washes cake down the drain. brothers smoke pot out of sight. a dog chews on golf s..."></div> </div> </div>

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