Rummy Poetry

My literary genius friend Knoefel sent me this article in Slate that I missed on Donald Rumsfeld's poetry. It's funny in that bizarro world kind of way, especially because his words are not altered. Here's a sample:

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