It comes in threes
and here’s the third,
bad news couched
in benign words,
no, pareidolia–
man in the moon, Jesus
in a breadloaf,
such a hunger
for finding something,
anything, even terror.
You asked what you should say.
Nearby is the country
they call life
you will know it
by its seriousness.
Rilke. I don’t know,
nor do I want to, really.
Give me your hand.
OPTIONAL POETRY 
Excellent–great topic and “pareidolia”–great word!! And, melding that with a Rilke reference and quote–perfect!! Great work! (Now, I may have to write a poem on our pareidolic bias as well! LOL!)
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thank you– if you write a pareidolic-centric poem I would like to read it!
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Ok, threw this together this morning:
Pareidolia Paranoia
Synaptic flashes in the cerebral cortex
Burn association by juxtaposition such that it MUST
Have meaning. I need to play that number!!
Symbolic savants—we are
Completely immersed by the totally transparent
Effects on how we assimilate all of life.
We can’t not fall prey to the granddaddy of
All conspiracies—that everything happens for
A reason.
We float through life seeking purpose—there MUST
Be a purpose to it all. So we jam the jagged
Puzzle pieces of a thousand different differential
Equations together into a jumbled, chaotic
Mass and smile knowingly that all is
Right because that Great Anthropomorph in the
Sky says it is.
No matter how non-linear our system, our
Pareidolic bias to see what is NOT there is our
Greatest amaurosis.
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pareidolic bias as an amaurosis, interesting way of putting it, seeing something unreal as a sort of blindness. I like it! Also happy to learn the term amaurosis, I think I have experienced it standing up once or twice (ack)
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Thanks so much!
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For some reason, this did not appear in my reader. Wonderful and breathtaking.
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C … are you OK; if the answer is ‘of course, silly’, I’m happy to be silly
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Thanks for checking in! I am fine. Up and down past few months
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