cheers Bill I learn a new word hashioki -don't know how long it will
stay in this old head
-the stand that serves! have looked them up on the web very varied even
folded paper
spellcheck wants to make it hashish!
On 21/01/2020 21:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
> A hashioki in Japan
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> sits front-left of dishes.
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> Propped on it, parallel
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> with the table edge,
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> paired tools point to the left.
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> I give you - the chopstick rest.
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>
> For all speech punctuating needs -
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> a comma’s pause,
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> a colon’s announcement
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> or as a break between courses,
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> be sure to re-nuzzle your twins
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> on their gently curved bed.
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>
> Metal cutlery clangs
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> or crouches on a table,
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> bracketing crockery with intention.
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> Mid-meal it may
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> be clattered to plate
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> but afterwards requires removal.
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> The rest, by contrast
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> remains for the duration.
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> Be it wooden, glass, porcelain
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> or plastic, it completes
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> the table tableau, a mini-divan
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> ready for rising from.
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>
> bw
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