Dear Oedipus

Cover of Planet of the Blind....man and dog....

When you blinded yourself with a pin you made yourself a walking advertisement for thievery, a matter you well understood since in Greece it was customary to forcibly blind thieves and turn them loose to beg on the roads. You stole truth from the dust clouds. You stole love from everything including grasses and the eels. Those who pretend to love are its antithesis. So you advertised duplicity and double dealing while groping your way through orchards and stumbling in dry riverbeds. Sometimes you lay down in a woody place and without skill braided your own hair.

Author: skuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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