In place of 'restaurant'
I suggest we use the name
for the old Spartan custom
of eating the main meal in public.
To endear 'syssitia',
I fabricate an ambition
fruitless as a task Sisyphean:
that of King Syssitus of Athens
and his Queen Syssotia
to spice up boring Boeotia.
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