If Ever I Cease to Love

Today is Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

This was always one of my favorite poems about Mardi Gras day. Today that poem took on new meaning as I needed to get a work-related thing from someone in New Orleans, but I couldn’t get it because their office was closed.

Captains of Industry
The world is doing business:
Wall Street’s selling stocks,
Hollywood’s making movies,
And Yale is forging locks.

For them today’s just Tuesday.
Just another working day,
And I’m so glad that I ain’t them
I don’t know what to say.

Now don’t get smug and criticize.
Don’t say us folks are lazy.
It takes a lot of work
To make an industry of crazy.

The book this poem came from is out of print, but there are a few used books listed for resale at Amazon. For more about the authors, see their websites—Brad Bagert and Charlie Smith.