If only we had known this earlier! It seems we misinterpreted the guy from the get go.
I now feel I understand Rummy on such a deeper level…enjoy.
Hope the coding is ok-it’s been a while since I linked to anything here.
I knew there were things about Rummy that I knew I knew, and some things I knew I didn’t know. However, I never knew there were things about Rummy that I didn’t know I didn’t know. You know?
tsk, tsk, Mindfield --shape your post into the form of haiku, and then we’ll talk…
I think I like the gas station poem best.
I laughed very hard.
What a pompous idiot.
Known? Unknown? He’s gone.
Maybe Rummy’s prose
Would sound a bit better with
A bongo player
I will start my epic ode soon…Iraq as Xanadu?
Nah…
Hart Seely actually published these poems in a small book, Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. A young composer and pianist set them to music as art songs, which he recorded with a soprano who’s the daughter of a friend of mine. The composer was interviewed on NPR. You can listen to some of them on that page – I think they’re cleverly rendered.