To ask.
To ask again.
To ask differently.
To ask in anticipation of
answers
that never arrive.
To ask because it is more human
to ask than to not ask.
To ask to add to what you know.
To ask to alter what you know.
To ask to find out what others know.
To ask how one can know what one knows.
To ask to learn what can be known
and what can be asked.