The L-a-UNCH Room Encounter

• Lunch Time, Church Time
• it doesn’t take much to see
• we’re still a segregated society
• we’re mixed together, involuntarily
• the melting pot, is freezing
• not getting hot, but sneezing
• I observed that mostly
• during service, and eating lunch
• people sat together, who shared
• a common culture, a common language
• an integrated table, very seldom,
• the Asians, Latinos, brought cooked from Home
• sat it in the center and shared, like Family
• the un-wise, Americanized, sat with each other
• eating their corporatized, laboratory-ized
• fake food,  fast foods, frozen dinners,
• feeding fatter, thinking thinner
• talking together, but eating alone
• the Haitians, Africans, Asians, Latinos,
• sharing, caring
• Americans, divided, unrequited
• smiling, pleasant, deeply one-sided
• which culture would you choose
• think of your children,
• without Family, community, what they lose
• capitalism’s rugged individuality
• whose only concern is money
• or a sharing, caring, society
• that doesn’t just feel
• when there is a disaster
• but everyday, keeps it real
• I, me, sitting alone, eating food,
• I cooked from Home…R.D.Revilo