A FOOL’S MESSAGE

 

K. V. Ramana Rao

(“Abandon all learning, you will be free from trouble and distress” – Laotse)

 

This fool’s raw stuff of ignorance is far safer

Than your barren husk of knowledge, ego polished,

Falstaffs and Bottoms are ever far far happier

With their “Plentiful lack of wit”, so by Nature furnished.

 

Your Knowledge came along, life wept, from your Edens

Exiled, here you have discovered quasars and blackholes!

Your knowledge triumphed, brought weightier burdens,

Blasted your peace, dug deeper graves for your souls.

 

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