read of this poet's obituary, thought i'd post my favorite poem

[dweller]

Such A Surreal Surprise

I know now after so much not knowing
that what I know is not worth knowing
except to my knowing that what i know
is not only not acceptable it is worth nothing

But once I have come to know this I accept
that nearly everyone I knew before I knew them
realized that the fact of knowing
is in both the long run and the short run

unknowable once you know this
you enter a zone of inexplicable relief
because your soul as a concentrated enigma
always searching for the darkened answer

is a cosmic joke giving you a wondrous happiness
from the fact that the soul at least in this endeavor
is worthless and you released from soul- searching
can move with ease along the swift stream

of unknowing a so delightful experience
where you need not have a beginning
and can cast your memory away forever
and be what you have always wanted

but never knew until now realizing
hello everybody is a salutation
that is meaningless and at the core of truth
and here you are how can you be so lucky?

William Sommers
1/20/27- 6/3/19
Poet Laureate of Fearrington Village
Pittsboro NC

✌🏼

[keithbvadu2]

1. Donald Rumsfeld:

Donald Rumsfeld:

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

[Atticus]

2. We have too many essays and too few poems in our lives. Thanks. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

4. ❤ nt