Coin-Faced Man
Coin-faced man, I am calibrated for numismatics.
Do you have a yen for the real?
Turns out, "[C]oins, although they confirm history,"
said Dr. Blenkinsop, "rarely correct it.
Numismatics is a offspring of sculpture."
For an obverse monarch or a tree,
the octagonal die is strikable;
struck or cast, bite on the coin to see if it's a slug.
We played Honeysuckle Stoopnagle with the coin-faced man.
Turns out, Dr. Blenkinsop is an old boy in The Doctor's Dilemma,
and Honeysuckle Stoopnagle is nothing but Hide the Thinble.
But man-faced coin, four bits—it's JFK
on a scumbled field from the Philly mint.
They belted him with a Margoliouth.
Woe to consequences so hardened!
Chicago, San Francisco papers please copy.
