Deductible Poems | Examples

Shake your shoes out

Make sure you shake your shoes out before putting them on.
they make excellent overnight campsites for vagabond crawlers.
I once got bit by something (i suspect a spider)
on the long toe of my left foot.
It swelled -itched and throbbed on and off for three weeks
i was unemployed at the time and wasn't insured 
so, I self-remedied-mainly with ice aspirin and drink.

Employment eventually found me before my benefits ran out
I'm insured now but rarely meet my deductible.

Always shake life out before you put it on
poison is the lover of shadows.

pickups

It sits out in your driveway
a glittering metallic sculpture.
It costs more than your house,
you love it more than your spouse.
You can hardly drive it, it’s too high,
you can barely park it, it’s so wide.
Like an exotic compulsion, you need it,
though you can barely afford to feed it.
There’s a cockpit with winking tech,
offering a printer, wi-fi and refrigeration.
It can pull a house off its foundation.
Is there a tendentious ecological statement,
in this prestigious resource you need for work
is the fact that it’s tax deductible just a perk?
With this polished and pampered machine,
you get the rewards of effective parenting,
as it literally reflects the care that it’s given.
It’s a spaceship ready for expedition,
what else in creation is as elysian,
as your gigantic pickup truck.
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songs for this:
Dreamin’ by G. Love and Special Sauce
Driving by Everything but the Girl
Little Deuce Coupe by Andrew Gold

Christmas Stocking Stuffers

Pity the Poor Octopus
The octopus is a curious creature
With eight long tentacles his most outstanding feature.
But because of his oddly shaped cephalopod bod,
He's not one of those who looks stylish in clothes,
For his head's much too big to put a hat upon.
And like the squid and the manta,
He could never play Santa,
'cause he has no lap to be sat upon.


Christmas Q and A:
Q: What's a favorite Christmas holiday entertainment for many domineering women?
A: "The Nutcracker"

Q: Why is it better to give at Christmas than to receive?
A: it might be tax deductible.

Q: What would the Sugar Plum one be if she had a bad case of hypertrichosis?
A: A very hairy fairy.

Merry Christmas Poetry Soup!

Minor Damage

A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have a deductible of $500, you say.
A gull rolls over the hood, sea-legs
scrambling over smooth metal.

The car is rocking.

“Did you turn off the coffee-maker?”

We are just talking;
our minds already rowing ashore
somewhere.

You Made This

We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go extinct again.
Cell phones retweet daily holocausts over coffee and donuts
Evil has friends on Facebook,
the commonplace entertains the unspeakable
as if it were merely an eccentric uncle.
The unborn and the born are culled and are tax deductible.
On the other hand the plague business is thriving.
There are killings on the market –
and of course everywhere else.

The New Normal

We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go extinct again.
Cell phones retweet daily holocausts over coffee and donuts
Evil has friends on Facebook,
the commonplace entertains the unspeakable
as if it were merely an eccentric uncle.
The unborn and the born are culled and are tax deductible.
On the other hand the plague business is thriving,
there are killings on the market –
and of course everywhere else.

Death By Insurance

Death by Insurance

She sits in her car,
in the parking lot
of  the emergency room,

with the worst stomach ache of her life.

Watching the fluorescent lights rhythmically blink,
she blinks back her  tears.
Caught in a web of indecision,
she doesn’t know what to do.

She thinks about her health insurance,
and her $8,000 deductible,
and she wishes she lived in Canada or England or France,
because she needs that money for food, and rent,
and life.

Her brain exploding with uncertainty,
her stomach erupting in pain,
she stays in her car and drives home.
And she eats some antacids and goes to bed,
promising herself that if she doesn’t feel better in the morning,
she will return to the emergency room.

Her mother, devastated and ruined,
identifies her body at the morgue.
What a waste of a life, they say.
Such a shame.
If only she had gone to the hospital sooner. 













February 11, 2020

Minor Damage

A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have a deductible of $400, you say.
A gull rolls over the hood, sea-legs
scrambling over smooth metal.

The car is rocking.

"Did you turn off the coffee-maker"?

We are just talking;
our minds already rowing ashore.

The Television Evangalist

He could suck joy out of a daisy,
turn a Spring day to dust and grit.
His belief was a second-hand fire-sale.

His wife practiced adultery,
gamely trying to perfect the craft.
She would join him at the pulpit,
to appreciative applause.
Her blond hair a halo
glowing with an electric light.

She was his tax-deductible angel,
but he did not love her.
He loved only the vengeance
of an unforgiving deity,
long since cast in the role
of divine curmudgeon.

When he returned home
to find his angel sucking the joy 
from a parishioner’s upright daisy,
he had no doubt in his God’s words,
and the power in them
to enslave.

Dystopian Reality

Shattered bottled up dreams
strewn in callous fashion,
litter those Tobacco roads
of man-made poverty
Cancerous amorality
is the accepted dystopian reality
Majority rule by the metal ballot law ... 
second finger got a gun pressed to the jaw
Diablo destiny decree:
Dos digital corrects any uno analog flaw
This warped sensibility
is the venal logic served pucker raw
A lot of lip sizzle buttery undercooked,
a lot of dead bang thievery overlooked  
Ash fault neglect
is heaped on the next generation
of social experimentation
Petri dish promises
are furtive cloned assertions
Silky slick politricking on the wifi
(why fi-nance poor citizens’ aspirations)
is a web of deceit ... 
tax-deductible alm desertion
Roll the lively military drums,
let the drones deliver
a hollow incoming death hum
Victory is counted as being “less of,”
cull the bottom feeders of a wolfbane society — 
This is the favorite poison ivy scheme
of the power pyramid builders:
Soulless architects
erecting a crooked obelisk  dystopian reality
And this fractured,
motion picture reel nightmare
still ain’t murky half as bad as it’s gonna be

I Have Seen Enough

I have seen enough and have to speak out
These health insurance companies making money off people
Is so disturbing and beyond words.
People with less money cannot keep up with these premiums,
Deductibles and co-pays.
A friend of mine couldn’t even get stitches recently 
Due to a high deductible due.
These companies have no conscience.
People are dying over these issues and losing their homes
I once saw a man in tears because of losing his home 
Unable to keep up with the health costs for his wife’s health issues.
And look what is happening to our Veterans!
It goes on and on and costs keep going up and up.
I have started to take action, speaking out.
           --- I hope more people do too ---

Heidi Sands

7/18/17

Tax Time

Tax Time

File by April 15th,
avoid penalty and interest.

Declare all income from: 
          gainful employment
          investments
          state refunds
          poker winnings
          bingo winnings
          jury duty
or even if you sell your old jalopy 
                              to your cousin.

But your losses are not fully deductible,
must be reduced or prorated,
                             spanning future years.
There are limits, you know -

and those limits - well,
          tax credits apply to others,
                      in every case . . .
                             you've exceeded the limit.

So dig deep . . . and pay up.

Canada Eh

Ocean Falls, B.C. has on average
Over 300 days of rain a year
Surely not somewhere I'd want to live
Many attempt suicide I hear

Canadians have a funny habit of
Ending each sentence with an “eh”
Couldn't be a bank robber in the U.S.A.
The “eh” would be a dead giveaway

Average number of folks in our households
Is roughly 2.6, give or take
Would sure like to meet that .6 person
An interesting image that'd make

Millions attend our Calgary Stampede
But we're really not a bunch of yahoos
We're a very computer literate country
Emails we send quite a slew

A unique Canadian one dollar coin
Was introduced back in 1987
It's affectionally known as a loonie
But it doesn't describe us, thank heaven

Even dog food here is tax-deductible
Expecting big lineups at immigration
Reason to migrate to this wonderful land
We welcome folks from ever nation


© Jack Ellison 2103

Melancholy Memory

It’s no longer here.
Gone is my set of wheels.
Pieces of glass lie here.
My car’s gone.

We called the police.
A report was filled out.
Gave them all the details.
What was next?

An insurance claim
was made on the next day.
“Gone”, what else could I say.
Is there hope?

The deductible
I had to get myself,
took all of my money.
Not funny.

People of the world
How cruel can they all be?
Are they too blind to see?
Rot in hell!

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