The proper study of mankind is man. By this Alexander Pope meant something more than the human frame and let’s be jumpy and irritable cuz we want better living conditions for the lame and the halt. You are the lame and the halt. And your family becomes the lame and the halt. We who are founding members of the L & H Society understand the huge permeability of the L & H index. We “get it” that this can happen to anyone. Uncle Bob and Joe Meloni who cuts the grass can become instantly crippled and by God if one stops to think about the fragility of this mankind matter, well you might as well go back to bed eh fellah? So by turns those of us who “get it” know that the L & H ye will always have with ye, etc. This is why I want accessible restrooms in the English department at the University of Iowa. I want them on every floor. I want them adjacent to the classrooms. I imagine a person with a wheelchair trying to fix her catheter and needing a restroom. I view this as a matter of human rights and of the law. Yet there’s a peculiar lack of agreement at the U of Iowa about this matter. I could go on about this subject but I want to return to Alexander Pope. He was a cripple. Lord knows he was mean. He struggled like hell to get from place to place. He lived in constant pain. Let us hold in our minds the fact that we are together with those in constant pain and recall that the rights of all are not conditional as perhaps some administrators might suppose. That man or woman in pain is still my brother or sister. And the lives of their minds matter to us most of all. Amen.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Amen.
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