Well, as this site’s administrator, it looks like I didn’t do my job very well. A Zumwalt poem was published back in January of this year and I missed it entirely. Below is the URL embedded in the title. Please visit the site.
Travel Advisory: Sector 4, May 15, 2058
by Zumwalt (Nov. 24, 2025)
Well, Zumwalt didn’t get the pick of the month at the prestigious Ink Sweat & Tears, but I wish to thank the zumpoems followers who voted:
Reading about this tragic incident in Minneapolis to find out some more about Renée Good, the woman who lost her life in yesterday’s ICE incident. Putting all politics aside, it is very sad to lose any innocent life, whether that of a parent, poet, writer, or musician. Renée Good was all four.
Here is the URL to her award winning poem on poets.org: https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs
With apologies to Emily and the DOJ
Release the files but just in part —
Deception’s Pathway lies
Too raw for Headline’s hungry Spark
The whole would scandalize
As Cards dealt from some hidden Deck
With watching eyes confined
The Truth must flame out gradually
To hide the Guilt entwined —
–zumwalt (2025)
Yeah, you can make human sacrifice to dialectical history
with druids and Marx
And you can root for truffles on Wall Street
But until you see the fallout on your
greasy fork
You’re just a vapid bowling alley
attendant
on graveyard.
–Zumwalt (1981?)
“Poets that write about the most trivial things, whether they know it our not, write about the most important things. That’s why it makes sense to write poetry about poetry.”
(From Zumquotes, A Compendium of Meaningless Meanderings attributed to Zumwalt by Zumwalt)
This just in:
President Trump is renaming
The Department of Defense to
The Department of War
The Department of the Treasury to
The Department of the Shamelessly Wealthy
The Department of the Interior to
The Department of Exploitation
The Department of Commerce to
The Department of Tariffs
The Department of Labor to
The Department of the Indentured
The Department of Agriculture to
The Department of Agrobusiness
The Department of Housing and Urban Development to
The Department of Real Estate Developers
The Department of Transportation to
The Department of Congestion and Fumes
The Department of Energy to
The Department of Oil and No Windmills
The Department of Education
The Department of Denial of History
The Department of Veterans Affairs to
The Department of Veteran Neglect
The Department of Homeland Security to
The Department of Homeland Surveillance
The Department of Health and Human Services to
The Department of Disease and Ignorant Ramblings
The Department of Justice to
The Department of Justice to
The Department of Corruption, Blackmail and Revenge
