The New Employee's Dilemma - A Poem

by R. D. Laning, new employee, 1970

I Don't Know

There is something I don't know,
That I am suppose to know.

I don't know what it is I don't know,
And yet I am supposed to know it.

And I feel I look stupid if I seem both to not to know it,
And not to know what it is I don't know.

Therefore, I pretend to know it.

This is nerve-wracking since I don't know
What I pretend to know,
Therefore I pretend to know everything.

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