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"Honest With Self" (by Joe DiMino)
Yes--we are fruit;
Sweet when ripe
but easily bruised
with a short shelf-life...
Oh--even if
you are yet to believe,
the wise
in abstinence
should beg absolution,
and the foolish
darker shades for their eyes.