Knowing: Creative Platypus

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Knowing

There are so many ways
of Knowing:

Oedipus cut out his eyes
and placed them on a table
so he could see himself.

"Know Thyself," the Oracle
commands, and The Socrates
knew he was the wisest man
for knowing nothing.

Is cutting out one's eyes a
confession of not knowing?
if thine eye offend...?
what if thy head offend?

O Galilean Teacher
who healed the blind,
do you bid us pluck out
our eyes that we might
see?

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