Labor is a thing I do not like; <br />Workin's makes me want to go on strike; <br />Sittin' in an office on a sunny afternoon, <br />Thinkin o' nothin' but a ragtime tune. <br /> <br />'Cause I got the blues, I said I got the blues, <br />I got the paragraphic blues, <br />Been a'sittin' here since ha' pas' ten, <br />Bitin' a hole in my fountain pen; <br />Brain's all stiff in the creakin' joints, <br />Can't make up no wheezes on the fourteen points; <br />Can't think o' nothin' 'bout the end o' booze, <br />'Cause I got the para--, I said I got the paragraphic, I mean the column constructin' blues.<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-jazzy-bard/
