Essays & Poetry (mine or others) pertaining to historical and current events and burning social issues.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

In my Opinionated Opinion




You know those address labels,
 non-profit organizations send you to guilt you into giving
them money for their good cause? 
The address labels with your name embossed on them.
 The ones younever ordered, but they keep showing up
 in your mailbox, like it or not?

By now, if you have not round-filed them you have hundreds,
perhaps thousands—more than any one person could ever use.
Had you given into the guilting, you would have spent hundreds
of dollars for them all.

The whole proposition was disturbing to me so I decided a long
time ago that I wasn’t going to pay for what I don’t need,
 didn’t order and since I already pay my taxes,
 I have already helped subsidize all these non-profits,
 who write everything off, anyway.

These labels aren’t exactly FREE, but possession is 9/10s of the law
and clearly they are printed with my name and address,
 so it is logical to believe that they belong to me!
 Ever since that light bulb moment, I use them with impunity 
and have no regrets.
(After all I have had friends that work for “non-profits” who made more
money than me and had way more benefits.) How dare those non-profits
try to guilt people into paying again and again for what our tax dollars
have already  paid.
The unmitigated gall…



Raintreepoet, grinching.

2 comments:

  1. I have tried returning junk mail many times. It always bounces right back into my box. That's why I took control of the situation in the first place. Sick of unsolicited ----shit!

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