In Other Words
II. TO A STENOGRAPHER
Person feminine of gender,
Pounding at the lettered keys,
Think you that I should surrender
Tribute, be it ne’er so slender?
Lithe and listen, please:
Pounding at the lettered keys,
Think you that I should surrender
Tribute, be it ne’er so slender?
Lithe and listen, please:
You who, chafing at your fetters,
Say you “Do not have to work,”
Queen of pompadoured coquetters
How you hate to take my letters!
How you love to shirk!
Say you “Do not have to work,”
Queen of pompadoured coquetters
How you hate to take my letters!
How you love to shirk!
You who take two hours for luncheon—
Cake and soda, as it seems,
Being all that make your nuncheon,
While all afternoon you munch on
Callow chocolate creams.
Cake and soda, as it seems,
Being all that make your nuncheon,
While all afternoon you munch on
Callow chocolate creams.
Typist, it is truth I’m telling—
Pardon mine insurgency—
But, O maid at work rebelling,
Scorner of the rules of spelling,
Not a cent from me!
Pardon mine insurgency—
But, O maid at work rebelling,
Scorner of the rules of spelling,
Not a cent from me!
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