November 25, 2020

What Do I Not Know?

what do I not know

that I don’t know I don’t know

centuries past my forebears knew

regular bathing was not couth

cultured or even necessary

but I

I know I like to be clean and

will live longer because I am clean

and hopefully

am more pleasantly near for being clean

to you and I such a thing seems obvious

how could our forebears not know

what we know now and take as granted

yet what lies beyond our knowledge

to cause generations still to come

give head-shaking looks back at us

that such ignorance could exist

among those as did walk the Moon