BROWNTAXER’S LAST “STAND AND DELIVER" by Alan, Crown Jewels Award Winner Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

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BROWNTAXER’S LAST “STAND AND DELIVER”

BROWNTAXER was a Money Cat, with funds that he would “merge”;
fact, he is the most imprudent cat that ever had the urge
to tax from farthings at Land’s End right up to John’s old groats
rejoicing in his title of "The Terror of the Votes."

His manners were taxatious, his take, you calculate it please;
his coat was full and bulging, he was creaking at the knees;
both ears were somewhat deaf, no need to tell you why,
and he scowled upon a hostile world from each forbidding eye.

The lobby-fodder of West Minn knew something of his fame
at Threadneedle, the City too, people shuddered at his name.
Woe to the crispy Banknote, that’s earned on foreign trips,
and woe to any Taxee with whom Browntaxer comes to grips!

But most to Cats of non-Scots race his hatred he had vowed;
to Cats of foreign name and face no quarter was allowed.
The Welsh, and English too, regarded him with fears -
because it was these races that bent most his shellacked ears.

Browntaxer, anally at Number Two, wished only Number Ten,
so to the sound of ringing ears - midnight, it was Big Ben -
compulsive re promotion, and brooking of no delay -
on moonless night Browntaxer thought he’d found a way !

And so he gave the signal to his well-oiled leftish hordes,
with a frightful burst of briefings all the Tax-men swarmed abroad,
abandoning discretion, their committees, and like junk,
they battened down the hatches on the Numb One in his bunk.

The ruthless Taxers pressed forward, so stubborn, seat by seat;
Browntaxer, to no one’s surprise, never gave up his bleat;
he who had so many citizens driven, unto that final drop,
at the end of all his crimes could only say “Ker-plop”,

For the millions, called “Poll-fodder” that had paid so dear so long,
uprose and saw the chance for Browntaxer to be gone,
and in what would come to be called the “Great Labour of Love”
expelled both Numbers One and Two, with a last liberating shove ....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

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Dear Cleo and Fran,

You are both very kind !

But Cleo, you say "Thanks for coloring the Mosaic "

Brown is a color ? LOL

Love
ALan