Which topics would you like to be more informed about?
These days if you want to know
You simply look things up
Use common sense to know what’s true
Ignore what’s just made up.
We’re inundated with bad news
Can know what’s going on.
So if you’re feeling ill informed
That’s mainly down to you.
And yet I have a knowledge gap
I have to share with you.
I barely know how anything works
Can’t fix it when it’s broke.
Men are s’posed to know these things
A gift they get from birth
But somehow I’m the one
that missed that gene
And can’t make anything work.
Some learn from their father
But I’m a soldier’s son
If something broke
We went to the store
And got another one.
We were always moving
So not much DIY
You don’t make alterations
If you’re not planning to stay.
I am really useless
If anything is broke
I have to leave it to my wife
Which makes her really cross.
I’m getting slightly better
YouTube really helps
But if you have no confidence
It’s scarey doing things.
I am always frightened
That I will make things worse.
Somehow I have two left hands
No fingers, only thumbs.
The worst thing with not knowing
Is not knowing you don’t know.
There’s such a lot that I don’t know
I live in ignorance.
I try to keep up with current affairs,
Culture, Science, the Arts
But sadly it’s domestic affairs
On which I’m least informed.
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