Fiscal Halloween Poem by shimon weinroth

grinning pumpkins,
witches and gargoyles
littered black and orange
leaving us in the red

left us to deal
with a fiscal year of trick or treat
the government budget
had been misspent

even tax collectors were striking
wizards full of spells
pulling the wool,
to fool the men on the hill

gave in to one and took from another
the hungry man can do without,
declaring this is the cure
harpies kept humming

how good it would be
to tighten our belt,
flying witches chanted,
halloween is here