The REAL Poet Laurete of the U.S. (902 hits)
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Submitted by iddqd (View user info) at 2007-08-02 17:54:33 EDT
None other than D.H. Rumsfeld. THis is a copy-and-paste from Slate Magazine. I'm sure a couple of you have seen this article...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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my personal favourite is 'glass box'. so poignant, such brilliant use of language.
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Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-08-03 18:51:45 EDT (#)
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ha
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-08-03 10:22:49 EDT (#)
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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—
that 'glass box' poem is seriouly one of the best poems - intentional or not - that i have read in a long time. read that stanza again - the words aer so fucking amazing, and its so readily metaphorical.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-03 08:43:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-08-03 00:38:55 EDT (#)
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These are great even if cut and pasted
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-08-03 08:34:18 EDT (#)
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Submitted by charminglybeef (user info) at 2007-08-03 00:54:27 EDT (#)
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Hah! That's not half bad.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-08-03 00:38:55 EDT (#)
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These are great even if cut and pasted
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-08-03 00:38:01 EDT (#)
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Hahahah
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-08-02 22:58:35 EDT (#)
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Goodbye Ubersite!
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-08-02 18:12:10 EDT (#)
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Better than Charles Simic, anyway.
"Glass Box" gives me all sorts of unwanted and unnecessary ideas for a piece.
Such a danger, such a treat
To share a glass box'd woman's sheets
It's soft and shiny, but will break
If you make one fuckstyle mistake
And let me tell you, man to man,
It's not cool to be balls deep
Inside a woman with a glass vajin
And have it all go shatter-boom
On you 'cause you thrust too hard
Oh damn none of that rhymes with 'man'
Does it.
Hell.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-08-02 18:10:43 EDT (#)
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the known unknown is truly weird
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-08-02 18:03:36 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/110706
referencing orgasmatrons post.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-08-02 18:02:09 EDT (#)
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What's your point?