kevin 3m
Confirmation
Market Economics
In short
To main street beside the hour
What hour is California obstruction bill arrival?
Poor legislature end time?
Haven't recalled assembly from governor newsom of California
Currently assembled in fraud
Lien upon Senate in time?
Lien upon Senate in time?
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Treasury department in outside hall
Treasury department in outside hall
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Categories:
budget, america,
Form: Free verse
If you pay pension
To the military people
And don't pay to the real heroes
Who are doing real job
Working for you as OP
I really wonder
How is bureaucracy the apparatus
This of yours is really broke
* Inspired by song THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS - REPRESENT
Categories:
budget, military,
Form: Rhyme
endless amusement
cat chasing same mouse teaser
on shoestring budget
AP: 1st place 2025
Categories:
budget, cat, fun, pets, time,
Form: Haiku
Can't we just fudge it?
I don't see a reason to budget.
I count each penny,
It all goes away!
Momma goes to the money tree.
I know its outside.
But how she gets it is beyond me.
I've searched and searched,
In the tulip bed.
Even trees that are taller than me!
Once a week Momma comes in,
Gives me an allowance I can spend.
Later that day,
I smile sweet as honey.
Can I have a bit more money?
Just an advance,
To carry me over to next week.
Momma says, " I know I gave you an allowance today.
What did you spend it on anyway?"
Well, the candy store was open,
I cannot tell a lie.
The book I bought,
Gives me lots of thought.
My friend and I went for burgers,
Or three.
Now I have nothing left,
For me.
Momma said, "You have an allowance,
Please make it last!
Budget your pennies,
Or go without any!
Categories:
budget, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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 had way too much drag
A quick search of our backpacks
Revealed an empty beef jerky bag
I volunteered to go first and
Attempt our unusual ride
The others cheered and stepped back
To get a better look at our very long slide
I scrambled on the drain, carefully sat down …
And shot off like a bullet
It hurt so bad when I landed
For a year, I could barely even sit on a toilet
Categories:
budget, adventure, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Swim swim swim swim swim swim swim
swim swim swim swim swim swim swim
swim swim swim swim swim swim swim
swim swim swim swim swim
Swim swim swim swim
Swim swim swim
Oh forget it!
Swimming and showering just is NOT the same thing!
Categories:
budget, fun, funny, humor, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Aqua blue sled
Thumpity thump thump thump
Children laugh with glee
Thank heavens for air conditioning
Bumpity bump bump bump
Wheeeee!
Mom mirrors masterpiece The Scream
Declares, “This shall not be forgotten!”
Dad pleads his case,
“But, I put a mattress on the bottom.”
Categories:
budget, children, dad, family, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The real mind-blowing tournament,
Her football cups prized ornament;
Leaving without one eyes hollow,
Avid fans cease to squad follow...
Tough strikers playing out their hearts
Defenders halting ball that darts:
It's about luck but chiefly skill,
During practice better self kill!
Player free to display sweet role,
But dismissed as freak,no scored goal
How dare you miss a penalty
When what's at stake no novelty?
FIFA justifies earned dollars:
Blameless final whistle colours;
Out to make it competition
With ears for the right petition
Hosting it image-defining,
The stadium chosen keeps shining;
Sure,does raise an economy
Like would sound agronomy...
I learnt:Big budget in Brazil
For round leather retaining zeal.
Categories:
budget, crush, people,
Form: Rhyme
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
Categories:
budget, england, money, political, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
The difference of works within budget
on works realized is a buffet
no higher math could explain
efforts to explain thus vain
Nobel Prize To whom made this gadget !
Categories:
budget, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, business,
Form: Limerick
Just because I had a job
Doesn't mean I was gainfully employed
Or could afford my college degrees
Or even to eat, to sleep
So working low wage jobs 2nd shift
Was one way to look as if
I was head above water till I got too sick
I too was homeless
But for my car
Which they could not find to repossess
Only because it was my last link to hope
But this too would be a rope that would hang me
I couldn't afford the car either
Nor gas, oil, parking let alone insurance
I found ways to bathe
At the gas station
the laundromat
Then off to work smelling clean
With a sordid secrete
I too slept with the deer at the park
Where a sign said "Park closed after dark"
But I know God's rules didn't deny me
Park or simple joys of moonlight
Just because the economy tossed
My budget like a salad
And I made a pallet
In the car homeless today
Car-less soon
But not forever
This too shall pass.
Categories:
budget, animal, anxiety, car, cheer
Form: Free verse
How mom looked forward to her weekly trips to Sally Ann. It was undeniably the paramount highlight of her week. Magic the potential of a dollar or two. Feeling free like she could afford the well-earned luxury of bringing home a blouse, a random dish or recipe book.
a grown-up version
beyond memories
the easter egg hunt
AP: 3rd place 2021
posted on October 27, 2020
( "Sally Ann" = Salvation Army thrift store )
Categories:
budget, money, nostalgia, uplifting,
Form: Haibun
Moved out to the country, isolated and without a car, I don’t know what I would have done without my new friends Mrs. Juhas and Mrs. Gatien. They forced me to call them by their first names, it only became easier once the friendship deepened. Ida took me into town for grocery shopping every week. We’d do the rounds based on the sales flyers from A&P, IGA and Dominion. Vi only had two children compared to my six and Ida’s seven. Every week we had a cookday alternating with Vi and Ida, one week at our place the next at theirs. Hostesses buying the food and deciding on the meals to make: chili con carne, cabbage rolls, spaghetti sauce… The priority was obvious, it was more important to buy a freezer than a washing machine.
hungry bellies fed
families on a budget
smooth production line
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
budget, appreciation, family, food, friendship,
Form: Haibun
I'm Like a genie on a budget
you say you want a bit of your favourite cake
and BOOM I have made one.
You cannot find your favourite perfume
BOOM, One is in the post, Amazon to the rescue
Feeling tired you don’t want to cook
BOOM, A takeaway is on the way
you need a lift to go up town
BOOM, I'm your chauffeur for the day
Cupboards looking rather bare
BOOM, A bag of shopping sits outside your door
When times are hard will I lend an ear
BOOM, I have two and would love to listen
I may not own a flash motor car
Or mansion in the Caribbean
But I've got you, and that’s enough
I'm a genie on a budget
Categories:
budget, love,
Form: Free verse
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!"
Categories:
budget, character, evil, integrity, money,
Form: Limerick
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