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  • lxskllr
    Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 13435

    Poetry

    Selected Poetry of Donald Hume Rumsfeld


    The Unknown
    As we know,
    There are known knowns.
    There are things we know we know.
    We also know
    There are known unknowns.
    That is to say
    We know there are some things
    We do not know.
    But there are also unknown unknowns,
    The ones we don't know
    We don't know.
    —Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

    Glass Box
    You know, it's the old glass box at the—
    At the gas station,
    Where you're using those little things
    Trying to pick up the prize,
    And you can't find it.
    It's—
    And it's all these arms are going down in there,
    And so you keep dropping it
    And picking it up again and moving it,
    But—
    Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
    Those glass boxes,
    But—
    But they used to have them
    At all the gas stations
    When I was a kid.
    —Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

    A Confession
    Once in a while,
    I'm standing here, doing something.
    And I think,
    "What in the world am I doing here?"
    It's a big surprise.
    —May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times

    Happenings
    You're going to be told lots of things.
    You get told things every day that don't happen.
    It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't—
    It's printed in the press.
    The world thinks all these things happen.
    They never happened.
    Everyone's so eager to get the story
    Before in fact the story's there
    That the world is constantly being fed
    Things that haven't happened.
    All I can tell you is,
    It hasn't happened.
    It's going to happen.
    —Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing

    The Digital Revolution
    Oh my goodness gracious,
    What you can buy off the Internet
    In terms of overhead photography!
    A trained ape can know an awful lot
    Of what is going on in this world,
    Just by punching on his mouse
    For a relatively modest cost!
    —June 9, 2001, following European trip

    The Situation
    Things will not be necessarily continuous.
    The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
    Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
    There will be some things that people will see.
    There will be some things that people won't see.
    And life goes on.
    —Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

    Clarity
    I think what you'll find,
    I think what you'll find is,
    Whatever it is we do substantively,
    There will be near-perfect clarity
    As to what it is.
    And it will be known,
    And it will be known to the Congress,
    And it will be known to you,
    Probably before we decide it,
    But it will be known.
  • NonServiam
    Member
    • May 2010
    • 736

    #2
    Wow. I'm not sure if I have been enlightened or confused. Is Rumsfeld like The Riddler or more like the Mad Hatter!

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    • RobsanX
      Member
      • Aug 2008
      • 2030

      #3
      Ahhh, good ole Rummy. Whatever happened to him?

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      • Randall
        Member
        • May 2010
        • 753

        #4
        He was fired and then...

        He's probably making a gazillion dollars in the oil industry somewhere.

        Edit-- or maybe Tamiflu!

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        • Darwin
          Member
          • Mar 2010
          • 1372

          #5
          Even though it's not poetry I've read worse incoherent ramblings that someone actually claimed was poetry.

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          • ChaoticGemini
            Member
            • Jun 2010
            • 564

            #6
            Ah, Rumsfeld. I have missed the entertainment of his press conferences. He managed to take the ability to say a lot while saying nothing to the level of an art form.

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            • c.nash
              Banned Users
              • May 2010
              • 3511

              #7
              You know how I know you're gay?





              lol

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