Found poems

[PrinceMyshkin]

"Therein lies the central truth
of globalization today:
We're all connected
and nobody is in charge."

Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times: Sunday Opinion, p 13, 19/10/08

Please feel free to contribute your own found poems.

[djy78usa]

Good idea for a thread :thumbs_up

This reminds me of Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, bits taken from actual speaches given by the former Secretary of Defense, compiled by Hart Seely. Here's one of my favorites:


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

[PrinceMyshkin]

Good idea for a thread :thumbs_up

This reminds me of Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, bits taken from actual speaches given by the former Secretary of Defense, compiled by Hart Seely. Here's one of my favorites:

Yes, Rumsfeld is something of a treasure trove of found poetry, maybe because his subconscious was always a bit at war with his conscious self, like an imp peeking around from behind a bully?


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.