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 am supposed to know,

and 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 I 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'm supposed to know

but you can't tell me 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.

 
 


R. D. Laing

 

 

 

 

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