Proudly they showed me

their big haul, forty-two pounds

in all, of big red

apples they’d just picked. Their work

done, their minds were filled

with rows of cooling apple

pies, apple dumplings,

apple crisp, apple that and

apple this. But as

for me, all I can see are

days of work ahead

of me. An apple a day

might keep the doctor

away, but this great big haul

is quite another matter.

                                                              JDG