Annual Agony Or The Curse Of The Return Poem by Grace Diane Jessen

Annual Agony Or The Curse Of The Return

Rating: 5.0


All yesterday and half the night
I struggled with a yearly plight
That causes me confusion and despair:
Deciphering instructions
And figuring deductions
While fretting that the tax laws aren't fair.
The adding, multiplying,
Subtracting, moaning, crying
And searching for receipts that aren't there
Have left me frizzle-brained and spent.
I'd like to write the President
Or telephone the I.R.S. and swear!

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
In the USA, tomorrow is the deadline for filing income tax returns, so I thought this poem would be appropriate reading for today.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Spock The Vegan 18 April 2016

I have used Turbo-Tax the last few years (at least for Federal) . You still have to be able to answer the questions, and pay some money, but at least you know you are getting the changes in the law and not making mathematical errors.

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Kim Barney 11 October 2016

I also use Turbo Tax, both for Federal and for State. I used to buy the software at Sam's Club or Costco, but while I was in Brazil I couldn't do that (had to buy it online) so when I got back I just kept doing it that way.

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Menato San 18 April 2016

Wow it's amazing.keep up thanks for sharing

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Cowboy Ron Williams 13 August 2020

Whoa! A terrific poem with great rhyme and fantastic reasoning! This is a gem! To my poem list.

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Weslee Sampel 28 February 2017

I think this poem is really true. ugh.2 thumbs up

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Wes Vogler 03 November 2016

Do we call you Grace or Diane? I am delighted in finding an accomplished poet out of the blue. And I find you entertaining as well My spies have let me down. I should have been informed sooner. Please give us more (I have read your first four submissions all of which I find admirable.) Unable to find a biography. Please give us the basics. I suspect a pseudonym... you are no amateur

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Darwin Henry Beuning 29 April 2016

Grace, Welcome, It is great to have another Utahn join Poemhunter. Looking forward to many more of your poems.

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Kim Barney 19 April 2016

Welcome to Poem Hunter. This first poem of yours is an excellent beginning. Looking forward to many more.

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