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Nov 2014
Close one eye.


                                                          ­                        L


                               What do you see?


O


                                        Now switch.


                                                       ­                 O


             Close both;
             And- open.


                                         K


Each perspective, giving light to new way.
Each angle showing its very own and personal meaning.
Every piece forming the large view of it all.

We can do this now with our thoughts,
Some might call it-
"Taking a walk in their pair of shoes".

I prefer “art”.

Simply put, you start with nothing.
From there we add stories;
Be it experience, imagination, fictional, or realistic.

The best part is each story has meaning
Ranging from deep to no meaning at all.
And from there we see coincidence, similarities, and difference.

Regardless of any one story-
Its relation (or major lack there of) to another,
Makes a picture.

Like forming the Mona Lisa from pieces of toast,
Or 9/11 from individual pictures of victims,
Every minor part has a purpose,
And every purpose give larger meaning.


      Close one eye:


W


View the items you can see without peripherals.


                                                  ­                                   I


                                    Now both:

                          T


                           Seeing not with eyes but all else that is handed to you.


                                                          ­           H


                                                             ­                                     And open:


                                                         ­                                I


Yet do not immediately place it all together.


                           N


We are not all lucky enough to be born blind, def, or dumb.
But we all have the capability to see words from letters, weeks from days, buildings from bricks.

Just because a brick is left over or a painting of a shoe sits next to a photo of an ore,
Does not give reason that it is a mistake, or unimportant
Without it, Such words would never exist.

Get It?
March 14th, 2013
Gordon Michael III
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Gordon Michael III  28/M/Houston
(28/M/Houston)   
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