Perfectly Wise People
by David Ray
Now and then you meet
these wise people who,
when asked what they do,
say “Nothing – nothing
at all!”
“But surely you
do something?”
“No, nothing –
nothing at all.”
Oh, wise people
who cannot even tell us
how to do nothing,
for that would be
something, really something,
the telling. Thus
are you wiser than I.
© 2017 David Ray. All Rights Reserved.
Photo (“L’asino sapiente – The wise donkey“) by Ronald Menti on a Creative Commons License