What I Don'T Know Poem by Charlotte Ballard

What I don't know:
How to beat a dog senseless
How to stab a man to death
How to eat my weight in worms
How to pray over a dying child
How to keep time to the moon's change in clime
How to be a man between a woman's legs
How to create time at the end of an exam
How to pick corn or cotton with my hands bleeding
How to keep a job for more years than I am alive
How to laugh when I don't mean it
How to flirt so you'll know it
How to mend a fence or dig a ditch
How to keep a child from calling my name
How to bend when the wind blows
How to bake bread from flour and yeast all through it
How to curse in Latin
How to play the guitar or sing in pitch
How to feed a man so his heart stays fed or
How to write a poem that doesn't wander…