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"watch the bills go up"

Let's write-off the Tax Collector,

that predatory fellow

Whose appetite for your savings

is as boundless as his bellow,

And who, when told

the Government is “cutting” costs,

responds with cheerful yup

— For every time they cut a dollar,

the total on the bill goes up.

Let's lampoon the hypochondriac

who greets each Tuesday

with a brand‑new chronic Affliction,

announced with a flourish that's theatrically histrionic,

While sipping kale smoothies and proclaiming,

with a fervour positively Shakespearean‑and‑tonic,

That his light head‑cold is not a cold at all

but something thoroughly, catastrophically bubonic.

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