Saturday, April 05, 2003

Everyone's Blogging About...

According to Daypop, The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld is the second most popular blogtopic right now.

And no wonder. Transforming Rumsfeld's politispeak to poesy requires only line breaks and a title. Here's one lifted verbatum from a 12/6/01 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.


God, I wish I could write like that. And extemporaneously, yet!

posted by boyhowdy | 5:03 PM |

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