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Helen Keller

Q: What would she be doing right now if she was alive today? A: Scratching at the inside of her coffin.

By ⸘jason alan‽Published 2 years ago • Updated 2 years ago • 1 min read
Helen Keller
Photo by Miracle Seltzer on Unsplash

in honor of 'Repeat Day', June 3, here's to the miracle worker, Anne Sullivan, in so many ways

in the common world, there is not room to be normal. in a place where nobody is special, everyone wants to be extraordinary. where everyone hates the everyman strives to be. everyman strives to be. every man strives to be. but nobody is listening now. can't hear thunder in an echo. punishment from the pedestal on the hill. i am high and they are mighty, legendary. but i am legend. and everyman knows that every man shits and every man dies, but legends never bite the dust. they are made of ghosts, mass graves of the everyman all around me, everyman living dead inside, buried before their time. doing what Helen Keller would be if she was alive today.

in honor of 'Repeat Day', June 3, here's to the miracle worker, Anne Sullivan, in so many ways

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    Written by ⸘jason alan‽