Calling on Charles & Wallace

by Ed Sanders

I know I know
Charles Ives & Wallace Stevens
both made their money
in the insurance game

But I tell you
the insurance game in New Orleans
was also evil
very evil
evilest evil

The emperor of evil
& the dollar bills of denial
walked hand in hand
through the shrouded wards

0 Charles
0 Wallace

Can’t you dangle down
to the water
with rafts of reprieval?

No you can’t
you can’t

because
the insurance game in New Orleans and the Coast
was evil
very evil
vilest evil