When You Don’t Know

 

 

When you don’t know you don’t know

You don’t know you don’t know.

 

But what is it you don’t know you don’t know?

 

If you knew you didn’t know what you don’t know

You would know you don’t know that you didn’t know.

 

It is impossible not to know what you don’t know.

 

Not to know what you don’t know

Is to don’t know what you don’t know.

 

You cannot know what you don’t know

The same time you don’t know.

 

Even God cannot know what He doesn’t know

Because there is nothing that God doesn’t know.

 

God knows what He knows

And there is nothing He doesn’t know He knows.

 

You know what you know

And you know what you don’t know.

 

 

You don’t know what you know

But you don’t ever know what you don’t know you don’t know.

 

I know you know you are totally confused

And that is because

You didn’t know you didn’t know

I knew you didn’t know you didn’t know.

 

By the way, you may know you are not mad

But you do not know you are mad.

 

You may think I am mad

But I know you don’t know for sure

So, go with what you know

And what you do not know

I can’t tell you to forget

Because you don’t know.

 

Stewart Russell © March 22, 2022    

I Do Not Snore

 

 

I know I do not snore

For sure, not when I sleep,

Does anyone hear a tree fall

In the forest deep?

 

Well, I do not snore

And this I know for sure,

My own snore would wake me up

If I used to snore.

 

I’d snore the loudest

If I used to snore

And no one else would sleep;

That is for sure.

 

That’s who I am!

When awake I am loud

So just imagine when I’m asleep,

I’d rouse any crowd.

 

No complaints so far

About any snoring,

My wife would have told me

But so far, no complaining.

 

 

So, I can say for sure

I do not snore

For besides my wife complaining,

I’d also know for sure.

 

I still hear when I sleep

After all, I am not deaf,

Noises invariably wake me up

Adding to my stress.

 

Snoring would wake me

Why, it’s another sound

That would usually wake me up

If noise is around.

 

I know I do not snore,

Certainly not when I sleep

And you can believe me on that

Even as I speak.

 

 

Not everybody snores

Though most people do,

There are not may snore-less ones

And I am one of the few.

 

You may not believe me

So, believe what you wish,

But I am telling you I do not snore;

Snoring is not my dish.

 

You can rest peacefully

Even if you snore

But I would be sure to wake up

If I used to snore.

 

Stewart Russell © May 17, 2025