Jennifer confided: “My mother asked
‘What do you collect?’” Everyone collects,
It seems—a necessary human task
Illuminating artful intellect.
I fawned, when I was young, on postage stamps.
And thus was spawned a new philatelist
(Which doesn’t mean I lurked at children’s camps—
I, after all, was just a hobbyist).
Some gather paperweights, some fountain pens.
I know one guy who favors wristwatches.
One paid 4 mil for Babe Ruth’s shirt (weird yen)!
Another one collects strange fabric swatches.
But Jennifer’s peculiar rare symbols?
A global slew of esoteric thimbles!
You can’t make such stuff up—you heard it right—
Those patterned thimbles—Jennifer’s delight!
(5/31/12)