Restaurant

Portrait of Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter 1930–2008

No, you're wrong.

Everyone is as beautiful as they can possibly be

Particularly at lunch in a laughing restaurant

Everyone is as beautiful as they can possibly be

And they are moved by their own beauty

And they shed tears for it in the back of the taxi home

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