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12.

Through lidless eyes they stare, the gods.

The animals turn their gaze away.

Pascal speaks of the wretchedness of our condition—

that we cannot be one nor the other,

that our ignorance cannot rescue us from what our reason cannot grasp.

We stare at what we want to exist so that it exists,

or we stare at what threatens us, or what confound us,

the object of contemplation—

And blink.