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Audio and Video Music:
Turning Slowly.
By Ugonna Onyekwe.
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Perhaps a meal ought not bear so much
weight.
A dining room is not a synagogue.
Sometimes, however, food's a pedagogue.
Sometimes one's best text is what one ate.
One finds in food the sense in many senses,
Vested in a symbol that will last.
Even as a people needs its past,
Ritual foods dismantle time's defenses.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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