finding poems

when milann and i started talking about found poetry seriously, she got me to make a primer on the concept. so i sat down and made a goddamn ppt :) and found some lovelyhilarious found poems on the net...

the unknown
- donald rumsfeld in a press briefing, 12 feb 2002

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.

talk
- from http://finallyseeing.tumblr.com/post/140799737



no force
- from 'an elementary treatise on mechanics' by william whewell

Hence no force, however great,
can stretch a cord, however fine,
into a horizontal line
which is accurately straight.

also loving the concept behind broadsided that sweetly provides poetry pamphlets (or broadsides) for people to stick up in public places. would be so much cooler if their poetry would actually interact with their environment. like that google guy did very simply by putting speech bubbles on ads and posters, or how katie sokoler records people's accidental interactions with her street art. loving these street-art-poet-ninjas.