Upon Being Given My Choice Of Gift:
(& Presented With Two Rare Editions Of Goethe's Faust)
Often when we want to show our love's Extant
And of course also do preserve our own selves well
When we aim wisely we care not so much how money's spent
As we do to preserve our freedoms well as we can tell
And so the rarer items We come to think show more
(The more uncommon things we think are better),
But what we think the symbols chosen – for –
May turn out to be far too much like debt or debtor
So I ask that you consider a different kind of present
And if you wish it not or wish it also that is fine
In that case from the pool of choices you present
From which you'd have me choose, the first edition's mine
But far away what I would fancy most, consider, please:
On some occasions – for a few conversations – be my Mephistopheles
