still life with fruit

still life with fruit

A bruised banana that doesn't realize
It is still healthy and nutritious.
A banana split melting
In the mental-ward.
A man in a banana suit
Running the Bank of America.
A banana in a man suit
In charge of the monkeys at the zoo.

A worm hidden
In the apple of my eye.
A bulls-eye on the apple
Atop Eve’s head.
An apple flavored sleeping pill
Endorsed by Snow White.
A rotting apple pie
On a foreclosed home's windowsill.

A sweet peach that was grown
From a bad seed.
A boy with a bit of peach fuzz
thinking he’s the fucking man.
A peachy-keen outlook
In a brutally-blunt world.
A peach of immortality
As a myth that died in the minds of man.

A servant poisoning the royalty
With the grapes of their wrath.
An overweight kid playing
A game of marbles with his grapes.
A lone grape drunk
With the delusions of a wino.
A sour grape sober
With the realizations of life.

A bowl –
Keeping all the plucked fruit
One step away from the fallen.

11/26/13
M. L. Michael 

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