Who Knows?
Who
knows the way it goes
as
the globe spins?
Conspiracies!
Mysteries!
Who
killed Kennedy?
Who
Dr. King?
Did
we land on the moon?
Why’d
Lennon have to go so soon?
Who
knows?
Who
knows?
Who
knows?
Who
knows what my dad did in his youth?
He
ain’t talkin’.
Who
knows
is
God is or is god ain’t?
Who
knows?
When
I contemplate zen koans
I
feel as if nothing is known:
Hair
on teeth
Drink
tea
Clap
Hand
Tree
Falls
Silent
Bang
What’s
this thang there everybody’s talkin’ about,
some
kinda trip or something folks are going on
in
their own heads?
There’s
too many people on meds these days.
Why
don’t they just drink whiskey?
Who
knows?
Like
Mammaw always said
it’s
hard tellin’, not knowin’.
Who
knows?
It's quite evident here that Jeremy is a man of (at least) two worlds, Kentucky and East Asia. But who would have thought that philosophical these two worlds would be so similar? Who knew?
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