All Write, Already!

Not the war machine
Not the leg-up or the hand-me-out
Not the health care for vet'rans
Not the cent or two for the poor and old
Not the roads, the gas, the infrastructure
Not the public works, the guv'mint
Not the cops on every streetcorner or in your internet
Not the arr-an-dee, the scientific curiosity
Not the nukular power, the coal, the dams
Not the rape of our public forests for private roads
Not the suburban sprawl, the displaced farmers
Not the theft from the Injuns, before us or since
Not the inflation of industry, the wealth of the few
Not any of these justify
The thirty percent
Of my life
Spent
Taxed.