I DON'T KNOW

There is something I don’t know
That I am supposed to know.
I don’t know what it is I don’t know,
And yet I am supposed to know.

I feel I look stupid
If I seem both not to know it
And not know what it is I don’t know.
Therefore I pretend to know it.

This is nerve racking
Since I don’t know

what I must pretend to know.
Therefore I pretend to know everything.
I feel you know

what I am supposed to know.

But you can’t tell what it is.
Because you don’t know that
I don’t know what it is.
You may know what I don’t know,
but not that I don’t know it.

And I can’t tell you,
So you will have to tell me everything.

08-08-08