Once upon a time upon a wall in chalk

Someone wrote NUTS TO PEOPLE.

What a thing to do. What a way to talk.

I think it is a sort of subway fable.

Take a lot of people, some of them

Always make themselves a trouble,

Not everyone at once, but always some.

People get fed up with being people.

Nuts. NERTZ. Go jump in the lake.

He knew who he meant and I know why.

But something about this in chalk.

There is something about this guy.

MYRA LOVES ED. Maybe it was Ed,

And she'd said, No she really didn't.

Or the man who'd written FORWARD!

And found out lots of people wouldn't.

This one and that one, all day No,

With a side look or no look at all.

But how is he now? What do you do

After you write that on a wall?