Standard Deduction

To take the "standard deduction" means throwing away every gift to goodwill It means that you never spent hundreds on glasses or saved your receipts from each blue little pill It means that the trip that you took late last fall securing connections for business demands while your wife and kid sat at home half complete becomes liquid losses escaping your hands It means that each mile you penciled on notebooks and kept rubber banded in dark glove compartments might as well say: "Hey! You spent countless hours on pointless arrivals and black hole departments!" It means that your charges of finance are hollow and every bill that you paid is still owed It tangles and grows up in weeds of employment so you never reap the deductions you sowed. To take the "standard deduction" pulls your portfolio out of unique It means that you flow like the drudge of the masses and never quite manage to climb to the peak It means that your taxes will never be paid and all of your life you will owe and every bit of your saved IRA flatly refuses to grow. It blows every wish of a refund to wind and keeps the river of finance in sync but still you will find me there taking the "standard" as long as I'm filed by April 15th.