I read a poem by a girl today
Who asked her reader to convey
Just why he loved her and which feature
Made him aspire to be her creature.
She itemized them one by one —
The obvious ones—but then ‘the thumb’! ! !
I asked her ‘Why the thumb, young duck? ’
‘Because’ she said —
‘It would be good to suck! ’

Written as a comment to the poem, ‘Why Do You Want Me? ’
by O.A.S. Elias, to whom my thanks.

Pete Crowther

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thumb-sucking/