Poetry of Eli Siegel
The Unknown Should Be Good
It was a dark corridor.
Down that corridor, in darkness, went someone whom you could adore.
But she wasn’t seen by you;
There was something else for you to do
As this being went down the dark corridor.
Your attention was for
Something else; besides, was there not darkness?
Therefore, you could know less
About this adorable walking being.
For have I not told you something?
But there is so much more to know.
It is well that the adorable is what we don’t wholly know.
From The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 1430
(Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 2000 by Eli Siegel
(Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 2000 by Eli Siegel