KNOWING, AND 

NOT KNOWING 

I was there at White Sands 

wearing sunglasses to watch 

the detonation at the end of the world, 

I was free-falling with Little Boy 

through the skies above Hiroshima, 

I was checking through comic-books on the 

newsstand outside the Dallas Book Depository 

when I heard the shots that took away our future, 

I watch the 9:11 towers fall over and over, 

on a million TV-screen repeat, 

I hung around the Dakota Building 

as John Lennon signed his final autograph, 

something outside me takes the words away, 

evil passes me blind on the sidewalk, 

if this is a phase I’m going through, 

when does it end and move 

smoothly into the next phase? 

is there a chart you can consult, 

a graph that indicates you’re here, 

moving up this sharp incline 

towards that point there, 

after which you move through 

into the next phase where all this 

mixed-up confusion resolves, 

if this is a learning process, 

when does the knowing set in? 

because the more I’m seeing 

the less I understand… 

Featured online at: 

‘IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES’ (17 January 2018) 

http://internationaltimes.it/knowing-and-not-knowing/ 

Collected into: 

‘TWEAK VISION: THE WORD-PLAY 

SOLUTION TO MODERN-ANGST CONFUSION’ 

Alien Buddha Press (USA – March 2018)