I want more Empire apples tart and firm,
I was enraptured when I ate my first.
Short shelf-life means supply is but short term,
so get now, later cannot be coerced.

When night is dark and seems penultimate
to final ending where all turns to slime,
another day will dawn to cultivate
the seasonals we eat at proper time.

I'm eating cashews as I write these rhymes,
and sometimes when I blink I think I see
gleams scintillating as their brightness climbs,
crescendoing unsalted let them be.

All fruits and nuts are pleasures I enjoy
as I to write this all my wits employ.