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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...
Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax" is an episode from The Daily Poem by Goldberry Studios . Today’s poem is very much on-brand for Butler, whose best-known short story, “Pigs is Pigs,” concerns “a bureaucratic stationmaster who insists o...
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Published Apr 15, 2026, 3:21 long, audio available.
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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/
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Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax" is an episode from The Daily Poem by Goldberry Studios .
This episode is 3:21 long.
This episode was published on Apr 15, 2026.
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