because he gave an assignment, so I wrote one:
The Lie
When you ask mehow I’m doing, I think
about a worm that bores throughthe flesh of an applefor the bruises,
and I thinkabout how a cored appleis still an apple
and I think about how the snowin October crackedour apple tree, ruined one pieceso that the whole treehad to [...]
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For Oliver, finally a poem
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