"I don't know."  I once had a therapist who really got on me about responding that way to her questions.

I think about questions and answers a lot.

"I don't know" can be an evasive response.  It can also be a blindingly honest one.

Blindingly?


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I don't know.

I have problems with certainty.  Ultimately that's probably what's behind my love of the work of Wittgenstein, Charles Bernstein and Stanley Cavell.

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Reading Jarnot's wonderful biography of Robert Duncan, and thinking about the trajectories of a poet's life, I can't help but reflect on the role of questions and certainties in a life.

Note to self: write something more extensive about this one of these days or at least bring it up in an interview.