Glasses are the greatest invention.

Glasses--both the drinking and prescription kind.

Think just for a moment if the drinking kind did not exist.

Sure, we could drink out of our hands, or bowls, or spoons.

Dogs have survived.

But they make drinking things so much easier.

And the prescription kind.

Do they even need an argument to be formulated

in their favor? I really don't think so.

And while we're on the subject,

I'm going to say something really crazy.

Glass in general---greatest invention ever.

Maybe you're one of those people

who loves to drive in your car with

wind blowing your hair in a wild

carpet bomb-like frenzy around your face

and everyone else's faces. And maybe

you love it when bugs are vacuumed onto your cheek bones

and into your eye sockets as you're driving home.

And maybe you also love shivering yourself to sleep

on a cold winter night because your windows don't have glass panes.

And maybe you prefer cheap, tacky, plastic christmas tree ornaments

that you found at Family Dollar.

But I don't. 

I don't know everything about glass.

But I know enough.