Partners

Ellis Parker Butler

Love took chambers on our street
  Opposite to mine;
On his door he tacked a neat,
  Clearly lettered sign.

Straightway grew his custom great,
  For his sign read so:
“Hearts united while you wait.
  Step in. Love and Co.”

Much I wondered who was “Co.”
  In Love’s partnership;
Thought across the street I’d go—
  Learn from Love’s own lip.

So I went; and since that day
  Life is hard for me.
I was buncoed! (By the way,
  “Co.” is Jealousy.)

Next 10 Poems

• Ellis Parker Butler : Reasonable Interest
• Ellis Parker Butler : Ridden Down
• Ellis Parker Butler : Says Mister Doojabs
• Ellis Parker Butler : Song For Heroes
• Ellis Parker Butler : Speaking Of Operations
• Ellis Parker Butler : The Ballad Of A Bachelor
• Ellis Parker Butler : The Ballade Of The Automobile
• Ellis Parker Butler : The Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough
• Ellis Parker Butler : The Charge Of The Second Iowa Cavalry
• Ellis Parker Butler : The Cut Finger

Previous 10 Poems

• Ellis Parker Butler : Outbid
• Ellis Parker Butler : October
• Ellis Parker Butler : No Beer, No Work
• Ellis Parker Butler : Night In The City
• Ellis Parker Butler : Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels
• Ellis Parker Butler : Millennium
• Ellis Parker Butler : Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!
• Ellis Parker Butler : Maude's Valentine
• Ellis Parker Butler : Mary Had A Little Frog
• Ellis Parker Butler : Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Iii: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills