"The Final Say: The Tax Man Cometh" by Monty Gilmer

THE FINAL SAY: THE TAX MAN COMETH

by Monty Gilmer

According to Time magazine, "Albert Einstein once admitted that figuring out his U. S. income tax was beyond him -- he had to go to a tax consultant. 'This is too difficult for a mathematician,' said Einstein. 'It takes a philosopher.'"

Read a short poem about the hardship of accounting, the short poem "Money" by Robert Frost, on page 4 of the April 1936 issue of Poetry Magazine.

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"A Pact," a poem by Ezra Pound for Walt Whitman / April 1913 : Poetry Magazine

American poet Ezra Pound was born on this day in 1885. Here is a poem that he wrote for American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892).


A PACT
by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

I have made truce with you, Walt Whitman --
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root --
Let there be commerce between us.


Source: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (April 1913)