The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. - By Hart Seely - Slate Magazine - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 11
  

  Rumsfeld's speeches transformed into free-verse poetry.

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• 18 Sep 11
  

  K F

  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

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• 29 Mar 11
  

  rockenbach
• 01 Jan 11
  

  ggeoapos

  But we should all be listening. Rumsfeld's poetry is paradoxical: It uses playful language to address the most somber subjects: war, terrorism, mortality. Much of it is about indirection and evasion: He never faces his subjects head on but weaves away, le

• 19 Nov 10
  

  Katie Day

  poetry imported_from_delicious

• 07 Mar 10
  

  malcolm d

  donaldrumsfeld humor poetry

• 08 Dec 09
  

  Heath Splosion

  poetry

  • 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
• 06 Dec 09
  

  Keith Yang

  Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an accomplished man. Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an ambassador, a businessman, and a civil servant. But few Americans know that he is also a poet.

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• 14 Jul 09
  

  Linda Pilgrim

  Rumsfeld poetry

• 27 Aug 08
  

  danbri

  rumsfeld poetry

• 16 Jun 08
  

  LC Stuff

  the known unknowns

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• 10 Feb 08
  

  Saul Davis

  poetry

• 06 Nov 07
  

  Jason K

  poetry rumsfeld

• 22 Aug 07
  

  Michael Szollosy

  psychoanalysis the unconscious

  • The Unknown
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• 07 Jan 07
  

  Jackie

  funny sayings

• 28 Nov 06
  

  Alex L

  war politics humor

• 02 Oct 06
  

  Adam J.

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• 29 Jun 06
  

  Milan Kupresanin

  humor politics politika

• 24 May 06
  

  Nathan Rein

  Fascinating.

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• 24 Apr 06
  

  jdmarch

  Iraq poetry politics delicious

• 18 Mar 06
  

  Nathan M

  DonRumsfeld poetry

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