IT

It’s enormous.

It’s not September 11th,

It’s September 11th, cubed and squared.

I’d have to really go back

Mathematically

And see what cubed and squared

Would produce

Do you know?

–From Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld (“It” is excerpted from a July 19, 2002, interview DR did with the Washington Times)