Little things that no one needs -- <br />Little things to joke about -- <br />Little landscapes, done in beads. <br />Little morals, woven out, <br />Little wreaths of gilded grass, <br />Little brigs of whittled oak <br />Bottled painfully in glass; <br />These are made by lonely folk. <br /> <br />Lonely folk have lines of days <br />Long and faltering and thin; <br />Therefore -- little wax bouquets, <br />Prayers cut upon a pin, <br />Little maps of pinkish lands, <br />Little charts of curly seas, <br />Little plats of linen strands, <br />Little verses, such as these.<br /><br />Dorothy Parker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bric-a-brac/
