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Listeners to BBC4 radio will know of the 'Donald Rumsfeld Soundbite of the Week', but Hart Seely, writing in Slate, has realised that Rummy has been talking poetry all this time. One nice example:

A Confession

Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.

—May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times