Around the Table...edit 2.00001 knot,duke

[tectak]

Hi tectak.

Around the Table...
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I do not know why you feel that the table is consequential
You mean beyond the fact it is in the title and the first line of each verse?
but here goes It was of glued and pinned construction
and of light oak with an inlay of walnut...polished and laquered.
It had four legs but was expandable by drop-down leaf on both ends.
Each leaf was a million miles long and capable of further extension as required.
description suggests a domestic setting, intimacy, history, 'Sunday best', etc.
Grounds the piece, for want of a term.
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This was my memory.
When?
Why...I mean why is it relevent?
Memory of a child, of an adult (at a particular stage in life)...all would carry different implications I think.

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They talked to me and laughed with me, we told old tales, we all spilt wine;
Shouldn't this begin 'We...'? (as does the following line).
Why?
Because N is part of the 'group' everywhere except in the first line of this verse
and the beginning of this line.
They talked to suggests (perhaps) that N wasn't sitting with them 'around the table'
but was some literal or metaphorical distance away. Then by the time 'we all spilt wine'
N was part of the group/at the table. So what changed?
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upon the faces of the proud.
Only on the proud faces...not on the others...emphasis on only.
then, 'but saw only the loving smiles...' ?
We were their memories.
Are rather than 'were'?
Depends if its a Tuesday or not
If were, then what are 'we' now?

Around the table, husbands, wives, some with children by their side.
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isn't this all a bit too obvious?
As with a whole heap of obvious things...
we just don't see them. At least, that's why this is here.
Ok, but do you need the two lists?
'Around the table, all who died as all must die and so become...'?

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Good crit, knot. Changes are on the way,
 best, 
 tectak