This week’s poems are taken from some of the statements of Donald Rumsfeld, and they are presented here in honor of his “retirement.”  You can find a more complete list of some of his unintentional poetry on Slate, from which the following were taken.

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

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