.
Today what you don’t know
Is what you didn’t know and
wouldn’t
Know and may not know you hadn’t
.
Known when you had thought
You’d known enough, but hadn’t
Learned the first thing you would
.
Need to know to know what you
could
Say you knew about where you
are now.
Yo! (whew!) Où es tu maintenant?
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Had you been under oath,
That is, if you had not been
loath
To wed yourself by oath to vow
.
To tell the truth and nothing
but the truth
Just now, you’d have to have
resorted then
To vow in answer to the query
‘what words
.
Rhyme with now?’ (grâce à Dieu, pas
«maintenant»)
the only word that came
To you (came then to you, that
is, not now)
.
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Was how. Apart from vow. And,
oh yes, cow.
They said, “oh no! Not cow.
Don’t even think
About the cow.” Too late, you’d
thought it.
.
“You ought,” they said, “more strictly
to have
fought it.” Damned vow. If only
you could
Now say you forsook to take the
vow!
.
But wait! You never took it.
So go ahead, think Cow – Bifteck
Saignant
Avec Buerre Blanc! – and cook it.
^^^^^^^^^^^
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