The Archive · 1924

THE COLLECTOR

You can talk of your Mings and your Cletwonné things, Your Gobelins, mantels and You can ape the elect by the jades you collect; Yoit can swank over, settings and jewel You can give yourself aire on your Chippendale chairs And the age of your rugs from Bokhara; You can boast of your teak being truly unique And your lamp quite antique from Sahara; You can buy all the junk and collect all the bunk From Ispahan, Moscow, or Siam, Bvt tetay I wil eat to coteer for That's the kind of collector that T am.

Perey Waxman, in "Life"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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