1040 SOS

Tax time, budget breaks
Diving down to naught.
They've got what it takes
To take what we’ve got!

                      Lois E. Wilson
                      © 2008 Lois E. Wilson

 
WAYS AND MEANS
 
It seems lawmakers cannot be stopped.
For sure, the budget will not be cropped.
Always a new program to adopt;
They’ll spend it, but never refund it.
We’ll praise any partisan pundit
Who boldly asks, “How will you fund it?”
 
                        Lois E. Wilson
                        © 2010 Lois E. Wilson
 

DEDUCTIONS

The thought of ten children chilled my spine.
I regarded their parents with pity.
But seeing "two" on my tax form line,
I deduced such a brood is quite witty!

                         Lois E. Wilson
                         © 1965 Lois E. Wilson

 
APOLOGIES TO JOYCE KILMER AND "TREES"

I hope that I shall never see
The tax man coming after me.
A man whose hungry hands are pressed
Into my wallet for the rest.
A man who looks at forms all day

And lifts his greedy arms for pay.
A man who may in April bear
The task of robbin' for his share.

Upon whose bosses dough has lain—
Who intimately lives with gain.
Taxes are paid by folks like me;.:
But only government can tax a tree!

                          Lois E. Wilson
                          © 2007 Lois E. Wilson