08 October 2006

The sign wasn’t for the blind

Why do people
have to squeeze
the fruit to SEE
if it is ripe?

You ask them and receive
a perturbed look suggesting,
somehow, you’re
the one disturbed.

I put these signs on
trays of fruit which said,
“RIPE, BLIND PEOPLE
ONLY MAY SQUEEZE.”

After she had squeezed
a sighted woman complained
that Blind People
couldn’t read the sign.

I told her emphatically,
the sign
wasn’t FOR
the blind.
© I.D. Carswell

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