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Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:03:21
Publish Date: 2026-04-15 14:32:36
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Today’s poem is very much on-brand for Butler, whose best-known short story, “Pigs is Pigs,” concerns “a bureaucratic stationmaster who insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs.” Happy reading.



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