Flames

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. —Edith Sitwell

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All of us are stupid in certain ways,

seeing from a center off-center.

Since we are not the axis of the world,

our lines of sight are all askew and bent.

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There may be a corrective for this fault

but we can't find it using faulty sight.

The luck of sages was that it found them,

aligned them with the universal heart.

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Decent people sympathize, forgive

blameless stupidity, but they rush like lions

to attack those who shoot their ignorance

from flame-throwers of pure, fiery rage.

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We have to stop them, not just for us, but for those

whose blameless stupidity leaves them wide exposed.