The man at the traffic light was the genesis.
\nThe blindness plunged him into a milky sea.
\nThen a lot more followed:
\nthe car thief,
\nthe fun-seeking lady,
\nthe ophthalmologist,
\neven more.
\nIn that deserted clinic wing
\nwhere they all ended up,
\nit’s a delight how Pramoedya Toer
\nmade the doctor’s wife see
\nfar into the story, until the end
\nwhen she finally drowned
\nin the milky sea of bright blindness.
\nIt’s a delight how blindness
\nisn’t dark but milky
\nin This Earth of Mankind.<\/p>\n
A book-to-poem on Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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