Category Archives: Taxes



Last Thoughts

I thought I’d write a poem about ladies— Those girls, gorgeous, playing paddle tennis— But symptoms altered my priorities. Internal thumps, signifying menace, Sternly focussed thought (though short of panic). A mild chest pain on the right side—muscle Perhaps, not … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Death, Family, Taxes

Libertarians: The Doggerel Ballad

Beware the libertarians
(A most unseemly lot).
They’re certainly not agrarians—
They wish to sail on yachts. Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics, Taxes

IRS Haiku

Deductions, credits—
Many ways to warp the world!
Continue reading →

Posted in Taxes

IRS Tankas

Sometimes instruments,
Too heavy, create havoc!
Our Revenue Code
Cracks its own spine, desolates, Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Taxes

Tax Practice

Least (I thought) among my many clients,
A nude dancer brought me every year
A tiny wage report—to my query
She quips, “Yep, that’s all” (a tad defiant). Continue reading →

Posted in Lust, Taxes

Income Taxes

Boy oh boy oh boy, our Revenue Code—
Monstrous volume, diabolically
Designed—Satanic obfuscations goad
Us to confront (upset and colicky) Continue reading →

Posted in Taxes