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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.