Explore "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy" by Samuel Ellsworth Kiser on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The other day a rusty pen got stuck / Away deep in her finger, and she held / Her poor, dear little hand up then and yelled / For me to hurry over there and suck / The poison out, and when I went I struck / My toe against the old man's cuspidor / And rolled about eight feet along the floor / Before I knew what happened, blame the luck!
When I set up and looked around, at last / That long-legged, homely clerk was there, and so / He had her finger in his mouth, and, oh, / I'll bet you I'd 'a' kicked him if I dast! / I never seen the beat the way things go / When there's a chance for me to stand a show.