Ignorance Is Bliss!

from Bumper Jumper 12 by STEVE.E

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IGNORANCE IS BLISS

The other day, I realised just how ignorant I am!
I can’t fathom or decipher any sort of diagram.
There are so many things I simply do not know;
Sometimes, I don't even know which way to go.

If I had to calculate the circumference of the moon,
My head might ache and then pop like a balloon.
I haven't a clue when the pyramids were erected,
Or how they got that mummifying business perfected.

I’m rather vague on a combustion engine’s quirks,
Vaguer still on the ingredients of Indian fireworks.
So many things remain arcane mysteries to me,
Including the exact anatomy of my right knee.

My dirty knees! How would I say it in Chinese?
In Tokyo, I would of course need Japanese.
If I happened to pitch up in the centre of Berlin,
Meine schmutzige Knie would be the thing.

I can't tell you whether it's a raven or a starling,
And don't ask me who invented the Penny Farthing!
Was it perhaps a Mr Farthing, by any chance?
I shrug my shoulders and lapse into a trance.

And anyway, what’s the use of being a polyglot,
And knowing the Finnish for forget-me-not,
If you have no clue about the basic things to do?
Laugh, dance, sing… and in love be true!

So, after all my musing it comes down to this:
I steadfastly contend that ignorance is bliss!

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from Bumper Jumper 12, released December 7, 2021
Poems written and narrated by Steve Elliott

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