11-24-2025, 01:26 PM
Final Accounting
Ben Franklin understood the symmetry
of death and taxes,
tied a key to a kite
and waited for the sky to answer.
Every April I schedule
another autopsy of myself,
draw the scalpel
along receipts and deductions,
smell the ozone
crackling close,
lightning searching the ground.
The dead pay nothing.
Ben Franklin understood the symmetry
of death and taxes,
tied a key to a kite
and waited for the sky to answer.
Every April I schedule
another autopsy of myself,
draw the scalpel
along receipts and deductions,
smell the ozone
crackling close,
lightning searching the ground.
The dead pay nothing.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson