Jed writes ( of DRs work ): >It is actually rather nice. Two examples: Amateur doggerel!!!
As is well know to every school child, Don Rumsfeld is our master ninja warrior, hardly a wordsmith. His fighting styles are his poetry, manifold and peerless. As shown in the link below... http://www.poe-news.com/features.php?feat=31845 My personal favorite is the subtle corporate styling of the "coffee palm". Underlings and toadys beware! OTOH, our nations poet laureate is well known to be my fellow NY'er and all around groovy fellow, William Jefferson Clinton. Consider this short masterpiece, *************************************** There Are No Curtains --------------------- There are no curtains in the oval office There are no curtains on my private office There are no curtains or blinds that can close the windows in my private dining room. The naval aides come and go at will. *************************************** Note how he uses repetition, and variation, to achieve a building effect, like a good jazz chord progression, with a marvelous bridge. His most popular work, often quoted to me by Terry Blanton, follows. *************************************** The Word Is ----------- It depends on what the meaning of the word "is", is. If the- If he- if "is" means is and never has been that is not- that is one thing. If it means there is one, that was a completely true statement. *************************************** Clinton fractures and explodes sentence and form in a completely postmodern display of pure rythym and cadence, reminiscient of the Beat masters such as Burroughs and Ferlenghetti. Ahhh, sweet music to my sore ears. K. -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Koldomasov and Joule and the poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld Grimer quotes Kowalski, artfully rearranging the lines from his paper to form the last stanza from a sonnet: ================================================= By changing the electric motor rotation rate, we change the frequency of flow pulsation's and reach the resonance frequency of the orifice, which causes intensive cavitation. ================================================ It's May, and we seem to be in a poetic mood. Kowalski's lines remind me of an article in Slate magazine titled "The Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld": http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042 It is actually rather nice. Two examples: 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. 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.
