People Poems · PHOTO-0798

Untitled — judge a tree by the fruit that it bears

2026-05-15 · Herbin Living

Original typewritten page for Untitled — judge a tree by the fruit that it bears by Chris the Poet

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a. aay” ~~ i Toilet t that 4 ars who am i to judge a tree eee erode this cireult, the entire round the mystery is in the roundness bound i «od confines a paperclip climbing what can't be ; Glant mystery led me there to die in t se ¢ e placeholders the first rust is t ina dis-integrating from self the wrec' ak -9 quarts of "black tears" daily a lifetime later (eae glup some pigs love 2 still others love wisdom if every tree ed it ranches and leaves like so many overgrown hummingbirds wandering off into the wet night sky hunting for sugarwater we'd forget efore long and deserve it because and ol would cry at utility poles and not know why fake christmas trees would have their day in the sun perplexing children they too would fly away some would make themselves small to hide beneath roses and such inevitability would find them too the plants and flowers would clin away carefully footholding the clouds before taking root rain would live on as a figure of speech and song the day would never come to spend pennies hence their mintings' cessation finally men would curl up like roly polies beneath womens! legs they would close them and swim like tadpoles one by one away towards the sun middle day as the men watched them get smaller and farther away pei gs and still for hours and days with less than hope they'd stare __ . directly at the sun and finally of this staring co y the sun would say to the men's eyes enough ey mpetahe and in the dark the suns) they would forget this too ; wean yaad