Day 6

 Weird wisdoms


Day 6


Weird wisdom


The paradoxes


The maid of all work, heating the great queen's bathwater

would close her eyes, remembering that water cannot boil

when watched, a rule of household physics. A mask of black linen over her eyes helped shield both her and the self conscious bathwater from the trespass of looking.


Yet, because the cauldron was out of sight, it was also out of mind, and so, boiled over again and again until the thing drained dry and the metal burned dry air and the condensation breathed on walls and skin.


Meanwhile, in the kitchens,  unobserved, the scientist's cat was ambiguously fluxing between purrs, in and back into reality. It was a sadness: nothing was believed in the queendom where seeing was a prerequisite, unfulfilled by the people, shuteyed and blindfolded. And we must accept by this logic, the fact that the one eyed woman was the Queen; in a land where others did not care to look.

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