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It reminds me of....

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
http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/

This is my favorite Rummy poem. Taken from a collection published by Slate which had this description:

"Until now, the secretary's poetry has found only a small and skeptical audience: the Pentagon press corps.
...
It uses playful language to address the most somber subjects: war, terrorism, mortality. Much of it is about indirection and evasion: He never faces his subjects head on but weaves away, letting inversions and repetitions confuse and beguile. His work, with its dedication to the fractured rhythms of the plainspoken vernacular...."

As is perhaps too common in modern art, the description rivals the art itself.

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