Love Sonnets of an Office Boy

I wish a fire'd start up here, some day, / And all the rest would run away from you -- / The boss and that long-legged bookkeeper, too, / That you keep smilin' at -- and after they / Was all down-stairs you'd holler out and say: / "Won't no one come and save me? Must I choke / And die alone here in the heat and smoke? / Oh, cowards that they was to run away!"

And then I'd come and grab you up and go / Out through the hall and down the stairs, and when / I got you saved the crowd would cheer, and then / They'd take me to the hospital, and so / You'd come and stay beside me there and cry / And say you'd hate to live if I would die.