It’s a bug that won’t die, when you swat it with paper
Emerging unscathed from a cache of repellants
It neither hisses nor buzzes but it dashingly tapers
Zipping with remoteness to your aggregated annoyance
It tiptoes and scuttles in every business and home
Levying its plated Stylets for its parliamentary cavity
Watch as it chews your provisions to the bones
Nimbly sucking its proboscis from your private Property
There’s not a place on this earth it hasn’t imbibed
Not a man or a woman that has been voluntarily leech
It draws out your hemoglobin for its need to survive
But it’s a necessary evil to keep tributary peace
More endurable then a cockroach in a nuclear strike
It continues unabated through the New Year to December
Like a Mantis it propagates through its fatalistic bites
Copulating drafted lovers with a fix rate that it dismembers
There is nothing on earth which can stop this insect
Not a teaspoon of borax or a fat man of Raid
Will eliminate this nuisance and keep its mandibles in check
From robbing your possessions and squeezing at your pay
It doesn’t have six legs but it does make you tremble
Meticulously climbing in your wallet like a sponge
It’s annoying and it’s dreadful and you wish it could be crumpled
Yes Taxation is a pests that’s even worse than a bug
A great write, it eats notes from my wallet and decays my bank balance, a necessary evil the reward for labours weevil.
Brilliant Kevin. Love the metaphor. An asccurate portrait you’ve painted. I had to chuckle a little, but you’re right on the dime.
Haha yes, we have to pay tax if we want to participate in society, but sometimes it does seem excessive and unfairly levied. Interesting write.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
yes taxex is th evil of evils. and they happen so often, enjoyed