Driving and Forgetting
What side of the street
Do the cars go on?
When someone else drives,
The fact isn't easily drawn.
You know it, no doubt.
But, to recall it,
Takes a split of time:
If you don't usually use it.
When behind the wheel,
It is an instinct.
Not driving for years,
Makes the fact hazy, indistinct.
Are there 'facts' like this,
Ubiquitous and numerous--
Like cracks and potholes--
But invisible like our souls?
Can knowledge we have
Start to sink when we neglect it?
Know-how that we have,
Atrophies if we don't use it.
To know something, is not to use it.
To use it, is not to know it.
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