Focus On the Thumb

Some focus on hair, on legs, on muscles or on lips on feet, on shoulders, on arms or on hips Yet though you may think it a bit odd or dumb my sole focus here will be on the thumb Is the thumb worthy of a rigorous dissection like this? I'll let you be the judge of that in the final analysis... The thumb, of course, is what makes us primates same as black and white stripes make men inmates Speaking of distinction, the thumb's what babies suck and just you try from a babe's mouth that thumb to pluck! When gardening it sure pays to have a thumb that is green while a handyman who's all thumbs is regularly demeaned Then there are 'rules of thumb' based on real-life experience casting out hypotheses, guesses, and other such interference Remember 'Tom thumb,' the tiny man once swallowed by a cow? King Arthur's favorite, he even tangled with giants - O, wow! Such a graceful dancer was Hans Christian Anderson's 'Thumbelina' He could just as well have made her into a prima ballerina I mustn't leave out Little Jackie Horner who famously stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum! And for those of you who like music some Imagine a guitar strummed without a thumb So, in closing, to conclude, to summarize, in summary, in sum Just when was the last time your thumb went numb?!