Red Tape


Whether it be US, state or local,
government bodies pass laws.
Some of them grant money to citizens,
for one kind or another cause.

Some are quite easy like when we get 65,
Medicare is almost guaranteed,
That is, if we are still alive.

Options for old survivors insurance, SSI,
are quite varied and catch the readers' eye.
But getting them implemented can be a bitch,
when youÕn the govÕnment don't see eye to I.

But when you finally got it locked in,
beinÕ on the govÕnment dole ain't no sin.
pleasure when each month comes Ôround,
and that Eagle shit comes trickling down.

Now, other programs ain't that easy,
you fill out the forms, easy, breezy,
but some eagle eye spots a white lie,
you in a heap of stranglinÕ red necktie.

AnÕ if'on that f-on IRS get aholt yer case,
you could be doinÕ time in the big house,
even if all you was doinÕ was stretchinÕ the truth,
red tape's a bitch and I'm a louse.

Guess that's why she threw me outta on the house.


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Red Taped Man © Derek Berwin, Getty Images

Sometimes easy money from government programs has
enough red tape attached to make you pull your hair
out. Why I missed posting this last week?.

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