PrintJune 15, 2007
Tax Reform? Ever? (a poem)
The tax man cometh
But goeth would be better.
He's not a bad guy
Yet his product's a no-getter.
I don't get the logic,
The labyrinthic haze.
I don't get the vast
Rube Goldbergian maze.
I don't get the myriad
Dark complications
Which cause me to doubt
All these gradations.
Will we ever straighten
This pretzel out?
Can some simple soul
Bring common sense about?
Hand me a bill,
And I'll give you the dough.
How you came by that number
I'd rather not know.
You're going to get it all
From me anyway.
I'm tired of this game,
And I don't want to play.
I'll vote for anyone,
Brilliant or humdrum,
Who can straighten out
This eternal conundrum.
Mimi Evans Winship
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