Explore "To a Light Housekeeper" by Franklin P. Adams on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
(Who hitches laundering articles to the curtain / string and pastes them on the pane.)
Lady, thou that livest / Just across the way, / If a hang thou givest / What the people say, / If a cuss thou carest / What a poet thinks -- / Hearken, if thou darest, / Most immodest minx!
Though thy gloves thou tiest, / To the curtain string, / Though the things thou driest / Gird me while I sing, / Hankies and inventions / Of the lacy tribe -- / Things I may not mention, / Let alone describe.
These I mutely stand for / Though the sight offend, / THIS I reprimand for; / Take it from a friend:
Cease to pin thy tresses / To the window sill, / Or I'll tell the presses -- / Honestly, I will.