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)
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backpack and acolyte
with you on this trip
although suspicious of where you’re going
helping you carry suitcases you can’t lift alone
-zumwalt (1991)
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the wreck of goodwill
every dime counted
seemed to count itself
but the pennies were the trouble spot
and the cost of all goodwill.
— zumwalt (1998)
"The real artist and creative force is the reader, not the poet."
-- Zumwalt
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