Apple A Day

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An apple a day keeps the

            Doctor

            Away:

A high price but

One he could gladly pay.

He ate the apples with a grimace—

While his mother smiled down—

And felt that

The apples tasted

            Gray.

But when, today, the

            Torturous medicine

            Was taken,

He ran outside—

Ran outside to play:

His mother’s warning voice

Nothing but a

Whir in his ear:

            “Bundle up, dear,

            For, in this weather,

            No doctor will come all the way out here!”

 

He stayed in the snow

Until his feet were frozen as

Mid-winter mornings

And

His nose burned with woe.

He turned his face up to

The clouds—

Licked the snow:

            Ice-cream on a summer day.

Ran back to the house

At the approach of bitter Night’s breeze.

There, in the entryway,

Came his first sneeze.

“I thought,” he whined,

Trying to push the sniffles away,

“I thought

            An apple a day

            Kept the doctor away!”

 

Reviews

[TLK]

I found this amusing, and my only problem is that I like apples.