Best Budget Poems

What goes into 
caucus and committee
and what comes out 
      of caucus and committee

what dialogue travels 
the halls of Congress
and what dialogue is absent 
      from those consecrated halls

what is debated on 
the floor stays...

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The plane looked old and fairly worn,
the sky was grey, about to storm.
They hurried us along the aisles,
in tiny seats we’d sit for miles.

With creak and groan we taxied out,
at runway’s end we turned about.
With roar of jet and screech of wheels
we found out how...

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Lying in bed
Streching limbs
Slowly sinuously
Gently

Snow is falling
Forecast is bad
Budget Day is here
Reality intervenes
Anxiety filters in
I get up stiffly
To absorb it all...

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The budget is boring, George Osborne is a pratt *
Raising extra monies by taxing this and that
The deficit is crippling, but he hasn’t got a clue
To me, the next election seems long overdue!
 
 
 
 
* the spell-checker wanted to amend prat to part....

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victorious run
Lincoln Memorial steps--
budget agreement...

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bloated seams threading
weighted scales out of balance
promissory notes...

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In 2010 just before the General Election, David Cameron promised,
To eradicate the deficit by 2015 and manoeuvre it out of the red,
But now in 2015 George Osbourne the Chancellor of the Exchequer said,
He’d take until 2020 to make it black and put the whole thing...

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We are at a post war crisis 
where housing people has no longer huge value 
under this budget scheme electric goes up 
this is after they said their would be cheaper power 
with wind farms creating competition
 
Now this is one of the lies of...

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Not an amusement park in sight 
So, we headed to the mountains 
No bumper cars, roller coasters,
Spinning cups, or dancing fountains
We diligently searched
For something to stimulate our hype
At last we spotted a
Near perpendicular metal irrigation pipe
Without a pod, a seat, or even some grease
The tube...

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Gaping Hole In Budget

Went on trip when from reality was escaping,
And to do it up some money was scraping
Finally after I had saved enough and a lot
As usual again ended up getting caught
With bug whole in budget terribly gaping.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet

Promised...

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-brooding centrifical, delirium flight
spiraling downward toward bruising the night
bouncing on sky skin with trampoline hair
shooting like rocket dust into the air
dipping each strand in the hottest of stars
gold tipped and fragrant in Jupiter shards
crushing the bones in the feet of desire
snapping back shoestrings of love...

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The budget though
I have to say
Does sound a bit so
Jam today

Jam for some, for
Others sorrow
Nothing left for
Jam tomorrow

© Gail Foster 23rd September 2022...

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Bill’s been seeing 
a therapist for years
trying to get his life on track
but all he talks about is  
his many regrets in a life 
not wisely lived.
His therapist suggests 
he put his regrets on a boat 
and let it float away.

Bill heads for the...

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A man who cares about tomorrow
Is certain the day will bring sorrow 
So Trump's Golden Rule
Is, "Find any fool
And live well on all you can borrow!"...

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thanksgiving weekend
compiling grocery wishlist 
from weekly specials



posted on July 11, 2018...

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