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The Distant Land of Myopia

Dull tones smear and coddle in a gray muddle. Cow munch cloud fields. A reality steeped in prismatic conjecture until I find my spectacles. I enter reality, a Columbus arriving in America; not on the continent, but on some island and outcrop just short of finding. Gradually, through the resurrection of rods and cones, a little myopia and less blind faith feeds the expectant mind, until it can see both the daffodils and the ancient hands that brought them here.

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Date: 7/4/2022 6:35:00 PM
Ten pairs of reading glasses scattered around the house, and still I run around half blind when it comes to reading. "reality steeped in prismatic conjecture" is, well, pure poetry
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Eric Ashford
Date: 7/5/2022 6:31:00 PM
Thanks for the share Jeff, I need glasses to find my glasses.

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