Taxed Out on Tax Day… and A Poem
April 15, 2026
Did you file your taxes or an extension? Treasury Dept says 169 million Americans file individual income tax returns every year spending on average about 12 hours and 37 minutes on them which equals more than 2.1 billion total hours. Wishing you happy returns!
Did you know most undocumented workers file paying roughly $20 billion in income taxes each year? But maybe not this year: many immigrants are worried as “under the Trump administration, the I.R.S. shared some of their addresses with immigration officials — something it had never done before. They fear that federal agents might scoop them up, should they send in their tax forms,” reports The New York Times today: “I don’t know if we can trust this government not to come after us,” one woman told The Times. She and her husband, also undocumented, have paid federal taxes every year for more than a decade. He described their thinking to my colleague Miriam Jordan, who covers immigration: “If one day there’s immigration reform and the chance to legalize our status, we can show that we file our taxes, are not a burden — that we do the right thing,” he said.”
Image from my page in ArtLife as published on Art Predator April 15, 2012; in ArtLife, the adding machine tape with red and black was stapled to each page so the tape could be lifted to read the poem. I published 3 dozen broadsides in ArtLife over a dozen years. The limited edition magazine was bought, sought, and collected internationally, and I was a featured artist in 2003. The poem was collected in the 3:15 experiment anthology between sleeps which I co-edited, but I did not include it in my 3:15 poetry collection (which I still have copies of! LMK if you want to buy one!) What’s the 3:15 Experiment? Read more here.
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