Strangers

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Strangers

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we sit with dinner
and complacency

a table between
a chasm apart

aware
but not acknowledged

we finish our meal
clear the dishes
in cultivated silence

task done
we part quietly
me to my keyboard
you to read

strangers
yet another night

in our life of learned indifference

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rob kistner © 2007