's an interesting
custom, involving such in-
 visible items as the food
that's not on the table, the clothes
 that are not on the back
the radio whose music
 is silence. Doing without
is a great protector of reputations
 since all places on cannot go
are fabulous, and only the rare and
 enlightened plowman in his field
or on his mountain does not overrate
 what he does not or cannot have.
Saluting through their windows
 of cathedral glass those restaurants
we must not enter (unless like
 burglars we become subject to
arrest) we greet with our twinkling
 eyes the faces of others who do
without, the lady with the
 fishing pole, and the man who looks
amused to have discovered on a walk
 another piece of firewood.