Ink-Spatters

"Ink-Spatters" By Rachel Heffington I'm a poetess, an authoress, a gal of story-tell And I haven't all the fashion of a perfect Southern Belle And I mayn't be the prettiest or smartest in the land But I've got a world inside a world inside of my right hand. Oh I've only got to grasp a pen and all my dreams spill out Like a tea-pot with an inky-rinky-dinky sort of spout. I have children by the droves and a husband with a nib And my baby wears an inky-spotted, blotting-sanded bib. I am Queen and I am regent, I am rogue and I am cad And these tumble out my finger-tips onto a paper pad. Yes I wield enormous power over characters and plot And my duties: they are many, and my worries: they're a lot. But I wouldn't change a bit of it--no, not a single line For I think that being Authoress is really rather fine. So I'll keep my ink and paper and my ratchy-scratchy pen And I'll scribble out my stories till I come upon The End.