Explore "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy" by Samuel Ellsworth Kiser on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Last night, when she'd got on her coat and hat / And felt her dress behind and then her hair, / To see if everything was all right there, / She stopped and said: "Well, now just look at that!" / And then put out one foot a little bit, / And says: "Ain't that provokin'? I declare, / The string's untied!" She put it on a chair, / A-motionin' for me to fasten it.
So then that long-legged clerk he pushed me back / And grabbed the shoe-strings that were hangin' down -- / I wish I was the strongest man in town -- / Oh, wouldn't I of let him have a whack! / And I'd of kicked him so blamed hard I'll bet / He'd wonder what he might come down on yet.