If there is one person
in whom the general public
would feel comfortable trusting
to make an app
that first person who came to mind
would probably not
be Donald Rumsfeld
though luckily
it has nothing to do
with reviving the relics
of the Bush administration
and is just a game
called Churchill's Solitaire
which was not explicitly
created by him
but was created
with Rumsfeld's input
by developers Snapdragon Studios
and media agency Javelin.
However Rumsfeld
does call it "diabolical"
in his article
at Medium.com
describing the game's inspiration
from a meeting with André de Staercke
in 1973
a Belgian government aide
who the Nazis
during World War II
had forced into exile
and who later became
the secretary
of the forever inimitable Churchill
who had demonstrated to him
a more "demanding and complex"
version of solitaire
played with two decks
and 10 rows of cards.
The rest of the world wishes
that Donald had only realized
his programming potential
years ago
rather than pursuing
unknown unknowns.
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
