Contact Lenses

Right now, my eyes hurt so badly, I am wondering what it would be like to have no eyes. I don't think I've ever thought about this before. Certainly I've thought about blindness before, and how I lack the necessary character to forge stoically through, Helen Keller-like, to any sort of theoretical bright side. I think I would collapse. I think I would rip out my eyes. Empty sockets. I am thinking now of Oedipus Rex. I am also thinking of Robert Creeley.