Can I just say...

...Nutella on a half of a day-old croissant is luscious!

Last year's business...

...is this year's bookkeeping chore; this year's business is a resolution not to procrastinate until next year.

Rendering unto Caesar....

Image courtesy of what used to be MicroSoft Clip Art

Taxes keep the system rolling along, 

sometimes more smoothly 

than at other times, 

but rolling along, nevertheless; 

however, 

while I do not begrudge, 

for the most part, 

my fellow citizens 

my share of 

the systemic financial burden, 

I am more aggrieved by 

the amount of time 

I must dole out

to figure out

what I

owe. 

Setting on Fire Versus Going All Aflame

I cannot set sodden matter on fire; but I can choose to not quench nor to become quenched.