Various Units of Measure

I don't understand a year. 

I don’t understand a kilogram. 

I don’t understand a degree;

neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit.  I don’t understand an hour. 

I don’t understand a dollar, not to mention twenty or ten thousand.  Please,

don't ask me how much power is in a horse, how much water

is in an Olympic-size pool, or how many people,

real people,

were killed at Auschwitz. 

I could give you a number  I wouldn't understand. 

I could give you a number;

I wouldn't understand. 

I understand five jellybeans, but the jellybean to ton conversion

is incomprehensible to me, as are quarks, neut-

-rons, molecules, cells, and eco-

-systems. 

Humans explain things terribly, so don't spoonfeed me;

I can make my own spoons.  You know what though? 

You know what? 

I need three ounces of silver. 

-Citron