The Fruit Sticker Manifesto

An orange, an apple, a tangelo-

day by day, the collection grows.

Like marks upon my prison wall,

two-hundred stickers do recall

the countless hours of sressful labor,

with only minutes each day to savor

the sweet flesh of citrus or pomaceous fruit-

waxed and painted and labeled, to boot!

You know that saying, old folks say,

How doctors are easily kept at bay

When you take the time to eat an apple a day?

Maybe it's true and maybe it's not,

but I never got swine flu, and I won't get the shot!