I don’t ever want to know
Everything
There would be nothing new
The joy of learning would be lost
The wisdom gained from experience
Would have no use
What would be the point of diving to the depths of the ocean
What would be the purpose of jotting the expanse of space
If I spoke every tongue known to man and beast
All knowledge would be memory
All information would be recollection
If I knew everything
No one would need share
No one would need to smile
I don’t ever want to know
Everything
I would like there to be people
(if only a few)
That know vastly more than myself
I would like there to be places still undiscovered
Immortal to time
Places that spit
Spitefully
At the presumptive name of progress
This is not a blissful ode to ignorance
This is not toast to stupidity
This is me saying
I don’t ever want to know
Everything
Knowledge
Is
Power
The one that knows the most
Controls it
And no one man
Should ever know
That much
No one man should ever think he
Is not
man
©Christopher F. Brown 2012
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