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*****

Mine are grapefruit halves

Bitter

Salted

Easing the transition into awake

Perfect juicy handfuls

But I know girls with cantalopes

Seems to me you'd need a map

To navigate those

And hands like

Melonballers just to make an impression

Raspberry, Blackberry, Cherry *******

A fruit salad of peaches

And mangoes and apples

It's a world made for peelers

And paring knives

I world where a sweet tooth

Can thrive

 

We plant our women in orchards

Cultivate them in careful

Organized rows

With expert farmers and the latest fertilizers

Leading them on

Into ripeness

Harvested at just the right time

So that no man ever need know hunger

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holly-salvatore
American
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Aug 27, 2013
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