Best Taxed Poems

My hero is Henry David Thoreau
Rather than pay taxes, to jail he’d go
     With Uncle Sam’s hand out
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O holy night when Christ was born,
And in a manger laid;
What love decreed that God should be
The child of a maid?
O holy night the inn...

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Tonight as candles flicker, she is sitting at the table
where her husband sat (before he passed away),
working on his daily crossword puzzles, 
seeming most content...

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The personal is boring
as are my ruminations on the war.
What I need to do I can't try: 
wander without shelter in the backcountry.
Or go deeper...

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Manger Shadow

A shadow lurks behind the manger bed
 Swaddled by indifference,
  Creeping behind
 Lowing cows 
And 
Bleating sheep,
Power without power raising up a hoary...

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trickle down economy
pissing away 
the poor
pissing off
the middle class
as less and less
our paychecks
pay the bills
ironic how 
when I was
still in diapers
the rich got taxed
 a...

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Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach...

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I been seeing my life through a cloudy veil.
Although it was my fault, my own sight I did curtail.
I believed in going with the flow,...

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day breaks
	house wakes

	bright dawn
	last yawn

	hot brew
	on cue

	dew dries 
	time flies

	shade trees
	light breeze
	
	relaxed
	muse taxed

	pen’s still
	thoughts nil

	nap calls
	pad falls

	snoozer
	loser

	muse fled
	deadhead


June 7, 2022
entered in A Brian Strand Premiere...

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MANIPULATED MONEY.

WALL STREET.

FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE.

THE ONE DOLLAR BILL.

THE EYE OF PROVIDENCE.

NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM.

IN GOD WE TRUST.

ANNUIT COEPTIS.

THE GREAT SEAL.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SNAKE.

THE UNITED STATES...

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   Aided by the wind, 
entities take flight like prismatic colors- 
talismanning chanced direction 
"of...

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Now 1738 there was born a man... 
'name of Ethan Allen; his craw full'a sand,

Faced up to the guvenor of N Y, State..)
The green mountain...

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One of Life’s indisputable facts:
Government reserves the right to tax;
And tho’ they waste far more than they should,
It’s supposedly done “for the common good.”

Economists use...

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It's not easy to live with every day problems,
Especially when someone expects you to solve them,

The minute that trouble has raised up it's head,
And balance...

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(This poem is a lightly satirical look back in history at what 
  was known as the Boston Tea Party)


Something's brewing on the Dartmouth
"Are...

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