My Fair Amanuensis

I sit beside her daily

     Dictating yards of verse,

And stories, jokes and sketches,

     And paragraphs quite terse.

Sometimes they’re sentimental –

     She fumbles o’er her keys,

Mis-spells and does it over,

     And seems quite ill at ease.

Her name is Helen Mabel,

     (The rest I’ll not disclose)

She’s pretty as a picture,

     I love her, Heaven knows.

And oft in story writing

     I have to say like this:

“I love you, Gertrude, darling,

     And send to you one – long – kiss.”

‘Tis then my fair companion

     Does wretched work; you see

I believe the little angel

     Is dead in love with me.

And then I stop the story,

     And kiss away her strife;

What’s that? You think “it’s awful?”

     Great Scott, man, she’s my wife!

June 29, ‘06

          Sent Life, July 2, ‘06

amanuensis – (/əˌmænjuːˈɛnsɪs/) a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority.

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