by Michael Rupp

Created on: November 30, 2008

AN APPLE A DAY

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

It's common knowledge, so they say

Perhaps it's true, and the point is moot

But I have my doubts about this fruit.

It doesn't keep the dentist away

A chiropractor's not held at bay

Although some think the word is out

I continue to have my doubts

Perhaps it's time to think it through

To reexamine, for a moment or two

If we take a good look, hard and fast

We'll see the apple's nefarious past

It started with that bad news snake

From whom an apple Eve did take

If she had not thus so strayed

In the garden she could have stayed

Once Snow White did the apple taste

It very nearly laid her waste

Lucky for her, a prince came flying

Or perhaps she would still lay there dying

Poor Atlanta ran her famous race

She stopped for apples and lost her pace

If she had not lost, and broke her vow

She wouldn't be a lion now

When William Tell shot the apple red

It could have cost his poor son's head

These stories should all give one pause

To consider the trouble an apple can cause

The virtues of apples are a little too ripe

I think it's just publicity hype

So when you're hungry, go and root

For some other kind of fruit

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