If I make enough money, I just might get
A tax break. If I join the 1% and belong
to the right club.
Then, I can schmooze with the right
fancy folk, forget the middle class
joke, nothing more than a pig
in a poke.
Or, maybe, I’ll just become a Pass-Through
Corporation.
And when I do, I’ll make sure
all that extra cash
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Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and trial lawyer who is studying poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program. Hoy received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared (or will be appearing) most recently in Ariel Chart, Social Justice Poetry, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, The Penmen Review, TheNewVerse.News and Clark Street Review.