A lot of people do their tax returns early, some are scrambling to finish them today. Either way, it’s April 30, when we look over the financial successes and failures of the past year, and award the government money to run the country …
analyze the summation
of accounts reckoned
by finger or abacus
balance calculation
ruled into statistics
of audit notated
multiply mortgages
add debt with interest
subtracted from income
enumerate all monthly
invoices before division
reduces proportion
daily reckoning computed
after taking stock
for annual taxation
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A Summer Father … Here is poetry … interweaving images culled from a wartime childhood with bittersweet memories of a “summer father”. Lynda Monahan