Best Publican Poems

The Publican and the Pharisee went for a walk after church
One wore pride and majesty, the other the marks of the birch
“I say, my man,” said the Pharisee, “will you tell if I come to the pub?”
“Nay, it makes no odds to me, and we...

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There they go again,
giving you citizens
the ritual political spin
Got the same invitation as before ...
Only question is,
to which party do you wanna go
All of the politicians say,
their party gonna give you a merry good time
Saying, they gon make it rain
paper green,
and they got something good...

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Copper robbers ... penny-ante coin collectors
Duly appointed by Caesar Cersei,
deputized purse snatchers
Modern day publicans holding the money bag,
appointed bean counters
being levy 
abacus austere
Placing palm heavy fines on the people
of the Iron throne realm,
keeping them usury chained to the crown

Pence pawns of mother Jezebel the whore...

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You that I am not like other men--extortioners, or even like this tax collector.
'I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all I possess.'  And the tax collector standing
afar off, would not so much raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast...

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