I Don’t Know

I Don’t Know

by Kelp

the verbal tic
of an older guy
who accepts that his dumbness
is on the rise

a sentence starter
or a filler
a non-conclusive
mal-concluder

it has become
the answer to
every question bad or good
I don’t know

what anyone
wants to know
asking me as if I do
when I don’t

what do you mean
you don’t know
don’t you have an opinion
no

what do you think
I don’t know
how do you feel about
I don’t know

once I knew
or thought I knew
but now I know
I don’t know

the future is
an I don’t know
how do I feel about it
I don’t know