Classic Poem

For many a hammery, noisy year
I tried to write as I had to hear
The Woolworth Building's rat-a-tat-tat.
(Rivet by rivet, it went like that).

And when I moved over to Nassau Street,
A distance of less than a hundred feet
From my sinister ear they had some fun
Razing the plant of the New York Sun .

And just as I grab me a swell position,
They saw and hammer a new partition;
And it took six hours and a million curses
To write these inconsequential verses.