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# The Inevitable
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-inevitable/
- Published: 2021-08-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: many a poet wanes and waxes on certainty of death and taxes but in the end, we shall beat death and taxes? Ha, don't hold your breath
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

many a poet wanes and waxes  
on certainty of death and taxes  
but in the end, we shall beat death  
and taxes? Ha, don't hold your breath

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785154-Quickie-4k---Four-line-stanza-on-death