Planet of the Blind
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Planet of the Blind
5d ago
Ableism doesn’t have to be conscious. Like racism, homophobia, misogyny, it works from a set of assumptions. The first is that disability is someone else’s problem—a holdover from Victorian society which created specialized hospitals and asylums for the disabled. In higher education they still believe there should be a sequestered office that “handles” disability which ..read more
Planet of the Blind
2w ago
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of the broken heart to go around I would not tell you if it wasn’t so The trick of poetry is attention Look at the dish I serve this on in the Wedgewood Aristotle’s finger prints… ** The vatic voice really isn’t for me I’ve too much fidelity with truth For ..read more
Planet of the Blind
1M ago
Blind, alone, wandering a railway station, lost, and talking to strangers asking for help and they are silent. Get on the wrong train. ** Taxi driver tells me he loves dogs more than his family. ** Winter announces it won’t ever give up. A raven walks on the ice. ** Three drunken men try to ..read more
Planet of the Blind
2M ago
I sang more as a kid than I do now. This is a problem. And though I still laugh I do that less enough as well. This is a problem. And the censorious mantle clock with its disdainful ancestry snicks and animal ghosts drift through the room reminding me of loves long gone. Like all ..read more
Planet of the Blind
2M ago
“Many Blind Rivers” When I think of the blind, the historical blind, those people who lived before the 20th century, I often recall a famous poem by Langston Hughes. The connection might not seem obvious but there are centuries of blind ancestors just as the famous poet, watching a river flow, understood there are countless ..read more
Planet of the Blind
2M ago
How beautiful to see we’re still funny. Five people and no one is selling anything. One of us who has lost a lot of weight proudly lifts up his shirt and I say if he keeps this up, a piano will fall on him. The dog walks in with her dish clutched in her teeth ..read more
Planet of the Blind
3M ago
So it came down to this Green in mind Like that moment A pill dissolves So that I felt alive Without permission As free men do As free children do— A cob webbed forest All about me Outside three deer nosed a snow bank A lonely neighbor carried a book He might have been my ..read more
Planet of the Blind
3M ago
You never swim out into the same ocean But I woke this morning A flock of school children passing, One child dragging a stick along the fence, The music of a boy Who has more than he can carry, And I thought, I’m no longer So fond of travel… Not “old” but inside I’m pushed ..read more
Planet of the Blind
3M ago
The Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski wrote in his diary: "I don’t experience my life as a road, a journey from the cradle to the grave, but as an object, a vessel that gradually fills up and, when full, falls apart." I think it’s good to stay off the road. It’s good to think of your ..read more
Planet of the Blind
3M ago
(Readers note: the questioner is a cross between the Id and a river mule…) Q. Did they always treat you unfairly? And when did you first notice this? No, not always. I had a full day of happiness in 1959 when I was four years old. I had a stuffed monkey and a wooden top ..read more