Doing Without

Doing Without
David Ray
's an interestingcustom, involving such in- visible items as the foodthat's not on the table, the clothes that are not on the backthe radio whose music is silence. Doing withoutis a great protector of reputations since all places one cannot goare fabulous, and only the rare and enlightened plowman in his fieldor on his mountain does not overrate what he does not or cannot have.Saluting through their windows of cathedral glass those restaurantswe must not enter (unless like burglars we become subject toarrest) we greet with our twinkling eyes the faces of others who dowithout, the lady with the fishing pole, and the man who looksamused to have discovered on a walk another piece of firewood.
Doing Without
David Ray
's an interestingcustom, involving such in- visible items as the foodthat's not on the table, the clothes that are not on the backthe radio whose music is silence. Doing withoutis a great protector of reputations since all places one cannot goare fabulous, and only the rare and enlightened plowman in his fieldor on his mountain does not overrate what he does not or cannot have.Saluting through their windows of cathedral glass those restaurantswe must not enter (unless like burglars we become subject toarrest) we greet with our twinkling eyes the faces of others who dowithout, the lady with the fishing pole, and the man who looksamused to have discovered on a walk another piece of firewood.