Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Book On

I come from a long, ready line.
The year eighteen seventy eight,
The family craft that is mine
Began and continues to date.
Starting out in New Haven town,
The family spread worth worldwide.
Fingered for info, then put down,
But through it all we serve with pride.
Though battered and then trashed for new
And younger more up to date kin,
And bashed for being un-green too,
It's my purpose through thick and thin.

As your new phone book, let me say
I'm here to flip through night and day.