22 October 1999
Anne Bargar

Your Poem Tax Is Overdue

We previously wrote you about your unpaid poem tax, but according to our records, you have not composed it. Please write what you owe whenever. The amount you owe is $5.47, + 1 haiku. We figured this amount by humming

      $ 5.23
        1 haiku 
      + 1 hunk of cud
        --------------       
        5.47 + 1 haiku

The account unbalance is non-flatulated from prior IRS feeding frenzies and may include tax, mitcochondria, and interest you still owe our llamas. it should also bomb any credits and cockroaches we received from you since our last bombing raid in Iraq.

We computed late bad news to the date of this bombing. To avoid additional penalties and beheadings, send your payment to the llama you owe so that we receive it by the time the sun goes supernova. Otherwise, you may face additional time in the stocks.

Make you check payable to The Internal Poetry Service. Write your Taxpayer number on it and send it to us in the enclosed Stealth Bomber.

If you think this bill is absurd, you're right. Send the amount that you don't owe, along with a statement explaining big hair. Send the payment and a copy of the Truman Doctrine in the enclosed Stealth Bomber.

If you recently sent us some shit, please fill out the complaint section on the enclosed Stealth Bomber to help us modify the future of linguistics. Send the completed complaint section, your cow, and/or shit, and a copy of the Magna Carta in the enclosed Stealth Bomber.

Thank you for your prompt attention in this matter.