Blinks
protect only against the anticipated.
Under normal circumstances
foresight’s function is sufficiently fast.
However,
when a neural utterance leaps
the permissibility pool
(in which it should have drowned),
barrels through the censorial wall
(by which it should have been deflected),
and is catapulted by the tongue
(which should have been tied)
into the air
where it hurls
straight for its target at the speed of sound,
foresight’s threshold is exceeded
and the blink occurs
too late.
Often times,
removal of the foreign object must take place
via tears.