Too Much Knowledge about Thomas Merton’s Death

Could it be we've learned too much?

If charged, we must confess.

We would be more popular

If we knew much less.

When we "knew" what others "knew,"

Everything was great.

Merton pros had not consigned us

To a "pariah" state.

Education's big with them

And ignorance the foe,

Except for those disturbing things

That they don't want to know.

David Martin

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