IDK

I don’t know what poets do
but I know a word can starve 
a thousand pens of ink

I don’t know what thinkers do
but if nebulae were cubes
I’d be a physicist I think

I don’t know what a writer is
but I haven’t brushed my teeth in days
what for connecting all the dots

I don’t know where explorers go
but I know to converse with stars
and how to keep the light they wrought

I don’t know what light is for
but to be thankful for my eyes 
and for the words still in the dark

How they twinkle where they are

I don’t know 
if an artist is art or not 
but I think it be not completely 
in a detail
the lucky little devils escape mistook
in the mighty big pictures we overlook

I don’t know what a dancer does
to the music
but man do my feet hurt

I don’t know what fools do all day
but today I know enough to go find out

(Happy April First)


Image: Taylor McCall, The Major Arcana of the Taro as Described by P.D. Ouspensky

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