Apple is a round

Fleshy fruit that’s edible

That has either red, green

Or yellow skin

With small seeds

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After they are picked

From orchards

And brought to the market

Customers line up

To purchase this fruit 

Not only for eating purposes

But also to make apple sauce

Butter and cider

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We have all heard the saying

Of being the apple of one’s eye

That’s about anyone that’s so cherished

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Another good saying about the apple

Is “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”

This affirmation glorifies the apple

As being a fruit with much nutritional value

That’s good for our health

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So when you see mom and pop’s 

Apple cart at a Farmer’s Market

Step right up to support them

Do not hold the view that an apple 

May look beautiful on the outside

But is rotten at its core

Be positive about apples

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Who would ever thought 

That a simple apple seed 

Planted in the temperate climate

Throughout the Midwest 

By U.S. frontiersmen 

Like almost everything else

May also be seen

As a metaphor when it’s described

As an apple of discord 

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This reference goes back to the Greeks

With the kidnapping of beautiful Helen

That resulted in the Trojan War