CERTAINTY
WHEN I visited your Great City
One of the newspapers
Was conducting a department called
The Inquiring Reporter.
And I noticed
That no matter what questions the reporter put
To the citizens he met
(Whether matters of finance, politics, ethics, or sport)
They always had a definite answer ready,
Prompt and precise,
Knowing exactly what ought to be done about it.
What a shock it would have been to that reporter
If he had met me,
For I might have said:
"I'm not sure. Come again to-morrow,
When I have thought it over,
And I may be able to offer an opinion."