My glasses were so dirty the other morning that they were giving me a headache. As I was cleaning them, it occurred to me that they were a fitting metaphor for the current distortions and virtiol of our social and mass media. As I pondered this as a metaphor, the following resulted.

Clean Lenses

funny how distorted reality seems
when your lenses aren’t clean
sometimes funny
scary or daunting

all because of grit and grime
a little smudging on the periphery
streaks through the sight-line
clean lenses clarify, realign

–LE – 8/20/24