“Sapiosexual” she voiced to me,
when I said I’m turned on by learning, but
I looked it up and found that, technically,
her term denotes attraction to a brain
above the norm. But let’s speak honestly –
alone or not, I thrill to new ideas.
It’s like addiction to epiphany –
I long to gather why, and even what.
The closest word I find’s “philomathy.”

(Magic 9)