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  Friday 4 April 2003


Apparently Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld, the US secretary of Defence is a poet. Karlin Lillington notes a Slate article where the Secretary's briefings are turned into blank verse.
Slate turns US Defense Sec Donald Rumsfeld into an unexpected bard with 'found poetry' constructed from his own words. Check out the whole article -- frighteningly funny -- but here're a few examples:

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

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