Explore "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy" by Samuel Ellsworth Kiser on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
One morning when the boss was out somewhere / And when the clerk was at the bank and me / And her was here alone together, she / Let out a screech and jumped up in the air / And grabbed her skirts and yelled: "A mouse!" And there / One come a-runnin' right at her, and, gee! / They wasn't a blame thing that I could see / To whack it with, except an office chair.
I grabbed one up and made a smash and hit / Her desk and broke a leg clear off somehow, / And when the boss came back and looked at it / He said that I would have to pay, and now, / When ma finds out I know just what I'll git -- / Next pay-day there will be an awful row.