-- The Variants of Knowing --

John Herlihy

I don’t know things that I should know,

I do know things that I shouldn’t know.

I think I know things I don’t actually know,

I don’t think I know things I do actually know.

I know some things that I didn’t know I knew,

I know things that I never thought of knowing

I knew some things I never actually learned,

I didn’t know some things I actually did learn

I don’t know some things that I want to know,

I know some things that I don’t want to know

I didn’t know I knew until I needed to know,

 I did know things that I never needed to know.

Some things I don’t know I will never know,

Some things I don’t know I will finally know.

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