1943 NICKEL


   A nickel I came upon, old is its age,


   Dirty and worn, 1943 had a name.


   When it was made, which first pocket did hold,


   A celebrity of movies or a farmer tired at night.


   Could it have been the great Joe Dimaggio, 


   As time went by possibly a singer or Olympian.


  A little boy had a nickel in his pocket, grew did he,


  A famous writer he became, a 1943 nickel, where 
  Could it be?

  Beyond seventy years this silver looking coin has traveled,


  Today it rests with me, who held onto it in 1943?

      Keith Garrett