Apple
Crisp as an Autumn day
Firm red-streaked greenness
Quietly satisfied with your own version of off-roundedness
Snuggling hopefully in my hand
For what?
Born
To tempt
The eye and nose and touch
Of roaming omnivores,
You live not to make love nor a cultural statement
But joyously to sell yourself
As food.
Cool
Calculating
Kamikaze being,
Who cheerfully
Prepares for crunching death from wandering teeth,
To send into tomorrow’s world
Your pips.
Sadly
I fear
You have no personal interest in me.
A cow would do as well.
So how to view the snuggling and the approaching intimate relationship
With one who gracefully prepares herself
To die?
RAE, 16 December 1976
Apple
Crisp as an Autumn day
Firm red-streaked greenness
Quietly satisfied with your own version of off-roundedness
Snuggling hopefully in my hand
For what?
Born
To tempt
The eye and nose and touch
Of roaming omnivores,
You live not to make love nor a cultural statement
But joyously to sell yourself
As food.
Cool
Calculating
Kamikaze being,
Who cheerfully
Prepares for crunching death from wandering teeth,
To send into tomorrow’s world
Your pips.
Sadly
I fear
You have no personal interest in me.
A cow would do as well.
So how to view the snuggling and the approaching intimate relationship
With one who gracefully prepares herself
To die?
RAE, 16 December 1976