What’s in an Eye Blink?

About this poem

It has been argued, both in jest, and also with some seriousness, that while spontaneous eye blinking serves as a critical physiological function that may interrupt incoming visual information, to a trained diagnostician, it may also serve as a reliable measure or marker of a subject’s response to external environmental stimuli under psychological conditions established and conducted to obtain truth or falsity of responses. But, tongue in cheek not intended, guard how you wink or wince at what you have read. Your wink, after all, may have different cultural connotations. more »