{"id":1127,"date":"2025-02-23T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:41:04","slug":"only-the-blind-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"only the blind see"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You looked up at me like you
were going to tell me a secret.

We see with our eyes,
you think.

We see with anticipation, expectation,
assumption, context, history,
propaganda, illusion,
desire, fear,
and
so
are
we too, blind.

Ghosts.

We live life on rails, behind bars,
our noses pressed up against
the limitations of drywall.

We peer, squint, blink,
rub, splash, call out
to one another,
request
a
second
opinion, demand
confirmation. Is this it?

Do we know?

Ten percent is too generous
to grant conceited
animals.
One,
maybe,
and then
only for the
materiality of
round numbers.

The rest?

The difference is a lifetime.

Divine creation or evolution,
the question is moot in
the minds of animals
who function on
a linear plane.

A decade,
we can remember.

A hundred years?
A hundred thousand?
A hundred million?

We've long since stopped functioning.
We think we see and we're wrong.
Dead wrong.

Holmes was right, Watson.
It doesn't matter.

We were born into Plato's cave.
We will die in Plato's cave.

The puppet masters own your entrails,
and mine too.

Demons,
gypsies,
wizards,
extraterrestrial space aliens,
Babylonians,
the Pharisees,
Eastern European degenerates,
Talmudists,
Ashkenazi Jews,
Zionists.

Does it matter?

Judaized, negrotized, this land
is their land now. Only the
blind see red stripes
and believe
in liberty.

And what do the rest of us see?

With our glass eyes, our natural armor,
our own anticipation, expectations,
assumptions, we cast a
jaundiced gaze over
this blasted
civilization
and
the only
thing we lack is
the stubborn confusion
I spent a lifetime trying
to straighten out.

Otherwise, the decay is just as putrid.

We discover and abandon hope,
backtrack from false paths,
and keep our eyeballs
fixed on the wheel
that reaps and sows.

We are no smarter.
We bear no fewer burdens.
We shall sink beneath the horizon
all the same.

So when you looked up at me,
I canted my head, as I saw
and thought, you have
a secret to tell me.

I'll keep that, for now, and believe so.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
February 23, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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