I Know Everything

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,
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.


There is nerve-wracking since I don't


know what I must pretend to know.
Therefore, I pretend I know everything




- R. D. Laing, "Knots" (1970)

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