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One (1) Big Apple
from Lost Lake Folk Opera n7 Special Illiberal Democracy issue Summer 2022
by Lost Lake Folk Opera magazine, a Shipwreckt Books imprint
O n e ( 1 ) B i g A p p l e
one (1) big apple eaten lonely from all this great big banquet of food.
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the crunch is sweet. & the juice hydrates tongue.
ruby red this apple shines with just a patch of sunrise yellow grown in a great big family of seeds
the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
& the poison of witches
is not found in cyanide seeds
because cyanide seeds need to grow
into cyanide trees.
& from a great big orchard grows all the red vessels of fruit.
apple seeds taste like almonds. & so johnny appleseed takes this great big handful of apple seeds
& grows them in one (1) flower pot in his room.
on his birthday he shall eat a nice big bowl of apple seeds
for his room has become crowded with apples
because the giving tree could only give so much.
one (1) big apple eaten lonely from all this great big banquet of food.
the crunch is sweet. & the juice hydrates tongue. & Spray All Your Filth
when i tell you please put on your mask & you scream fuck you
in my face at the top of your lungs in front of your children
& storm off maskless anyway
some of us have friends who have died from disease
when you scream fuck you
& spray all your filth
some of us know it’s better to be mildly inconvenienced
instead of having another time where one of your closest friends is found dead in a los angeles apartment
i know you think they don’t work but some of us are just trying to work minimum wage jobs to survive
when others couldn’t go to the emergency room in time & doctors are expensive
could you please shut the fuck up you spoiled prick & just put on your stupid mask
some of us have bigger problems than cloth.