I think pears are my favorite fruit
you can eat all of a pear
you start around the outside like an apple.
Because you got to know apples first
before pears entered your life
so you eat it like an apple
until you have a stereotypical chewed apple shape
then you say... but there is so much left
and you bite lower and lower
avoiding the little nub at the bottom.
But, there is still so much more.
So you bite closer, and closer,
and then you look from side to side.
Is anyone watching?
You bite off the bottom,
little nub and all,
glance from side to side.
You got away with it.
But there is still so much left.
you hold onto the stem and dangle it into your mouth, like a mouse into a cat, in the cartoons,
and you BITE.
The core is not hard... not tasteless
It chews and goes down easily....
Can it be true?
You look about.
How can this be?
Head tilted back once more... the mouse dangles again....
and again you BITE!
no...
no there should be seeds...
there should be hardness, and "core", and things not for chewing.
But... there is still more.
The stem now strong enough to support it at any angle,
you look at it.
What have you done?
How can this be?
Not all of it,
but there is still more, and again you bite,
stem between teeth, like a piece of steak reluctant to leave the fork... you pullllllllllll
and are left with only a stem,
fingers and chin juicy and wet.
Is it really this good?
Thanks wuukiee