Explore "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy" by Samuel Ellsworth Kiser on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When you're typewritin' and that long-legged clerk / Tips back there on his chair and smiles at you, / And you look up and get to smilin', too, / I'd like to go and give his chair a jerk / And send him flyin' till his head went through / The door that goes out to the hall, and when / They picked him up he'd be all black and blue / And you'd be nearly busted laughin' then.
But if I done it, maybe you would run / And hold his head and smooth his hair and say / It made you sad that he got dumped that way, / And I'd get h'isted out for what I done -- / I wish that he'd get fired and you'd stay / And suddenly I'd be a man some day.