read of this poet's obituary, thought i'd post my favorite poem

Such A Surreal Surprise

I know now after so much not knowing
that what I know is not worth knowing
except to my knowing that what i know
is not only not acceptable it is worth nothing

But once I have come to know this I accept
that nearly everyone I knew before I knew them
realized that the fact of knowing
is in both the long run and the short run

unknowable once you know this
you enter a zone of inexplicable relief
because your soul as a concentrated enigma
always searching for the darkened answer

is a cosmic joke giving you a wondrous happiness
from the fact that the soul at least in this endeavor
is worthless and you released from soul- searching
can move with ease along the swift stream

of unknowing a so delightful experience
where you need not have a beginning
and can cast your memory away forever
and be what you have always wanted

but never knew until now realizing
hello everybody is a salutation
that is meaningless and at the core of truth
and here you are how can you be so lucky?

William Sommers
1/20/27- 6/3/19
Poet Laureate of Fearrington Village
Pittsboro NC

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