The Tax Return

Posted on April 30, 2014 by

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 …

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THE TAX RETURN                                 047..3.20.14.blog.

analyze the summation
of accounts reckoned
by finger or abacus

balance calculation
ruled into statistics
of audit notated

multiply mortgages                                                    Copy of 047..3.20.14.blog.
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

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About Joanna M. Weston

Born in England, she is now living in Shawnigan Lake, BC. She is married to Robert, an accountant, and they have three sons, Andrew Jon Mark ... and two cats, Alice and Chaucer. Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more... Clarity House Press has published several of her chapbooks including: Berry and the Birthday Band (2010) One of These Little Ones (1987) – out of print Cuernavaca Diary (1990) – out of print Seasons (1993) – out of print Watch-night (2005) – out of print
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