He was one of our better poets. I’m not actually joking here. I would like to write a poem that was this good. My condolences and prayers to his family and loved ones.
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened
are always interesting to me, because
(as we know),
there are known knowns;
there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns;
that is to say
we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns
—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
And if one looks throughout
the history of our country
and other free countries,
it is the latter category that tends to be
the difficult ones.