taxes

this time of year - pretty much a rant, and not entirely sophisticated.

I should be
sorting the shoe
box and giving
our fine government
its due ...
They are so
very helpful
you see -
My kid came
home lunch kit
untouched --
apparently the
fellow student
monitors are
in a rush --
teacher's too
busy teaching
abc's to my daughter
who just finished
writing her
first soliloquy --
The roads
are so well
cleared I can
almost get my
car by the
pedestrians
forced onto the
street by chunks
of ice and mounds
of snow --
And if I wait
a mere nine months
I might get a diagnosis
of my hand
for the fall I took
last September --
It's okay, I understand
that if my tax is
one minute too late
a red flag audit and
penalty I must endure
but if I file now
I can expect
to wait for money
I over paid --
After all, no one
knows better than
the bureaucratic
best --they are
just ensuring
maximum interest
one hand to another
for my hard earned
buck!

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i understand this..not just government and taxes...

almost everything...if we are late we are dead meat...if they are late..."we're sorry for the delay"


are they really?????????

[ron]

I dare not tell you that you are absolutely correct, for if I agree with you they might put me on some terrorist list. I know they don't watch us, I know our tax money will be used...by those who know have it and not by me and you. So I won't dare to think it not say it not express it. For if I do who knows I might share a cell with you on some far of Island.

Great poem, (I never said that by the way, in case anyone asks).

[Lyn Anderson]

ha ha and lol, Oh my, I just might be in for that audit after all ...

[ron]

Don't worry I will stand with you on this one...um here's a radio call me when there close by.