The earliest writings we’ve ever found
Go back five thousand years—words of advice,
Most often, or flood comments, expounded
By some mythic kings, revealing life’s price.
Unsurprising how ancient an idea
Taxation is! Gracing Hebrew Bibles
With some random priestly lines here and there—
Funding temples, armies—often tribal.
But times change, and a few lines just won’t do.
We must build roads, aqueducts, patronize
The arts, pay governments that grew and grew—
New taxes raised for thoughts not always wise.
Who dreamed ‘twould come to this—a buzzing hive
Of rules and regs, amendments that off-load
Sixteen thousand eight hundred forty five
Pages: our IRS taxation Code!
(3/23/13)