Do you remember the old “Helen Keller joke” where the family moves her furniture? What can I say? It hurt me as a blind child.
The old saying, “sticks and stones” is nonsense.
The motive behind that joke was to make a blind-deaf woman appear insignificant, which means, beneath contemplation.
In my world I want all the children to play together happily.
I want a new language to develop.
Meanwhile I’m going to travel all day in the open boat of a poem.
In other words I’m going to merely grow.
Planet of the Blind 