Saturday, July 24, 2021

Real flesh

Cut off as I am,
it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel
like a shadow walking in a shadowy world.
When this happens
I ask to be taken to New York City.
Always I return home weary
but I have the comforting certainty
that mankind is real flesh
and I myself am not a dream.

                  Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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