The June 23rd prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a poem “about what you’ve taught yourself.”

I don’t know if I’ve learned anything myself
except that I don’t know much of anything
Without you here
I wouldn’t know anything at all

Sure, I can tell myself just about anything
but I have no way of knowing whether it’s true
Without you here
I wouldn’t know anything at all

All the books in the world
all the songs on the radio
all the scratchings
in the pages of my journals
In my own world
what I don’t know could fill volumes

So it’s hard to tell myself anything
because I never quite know what to believe
Without you here
I wouldn’t know anything at all

That’s the only thing
I really know

(23 June 2014)