“fruit.”
to group is to forsake uniqueness in favour of what is ‘base level similarities’
we take the over powering nature of bananas, the richness of an otaheiti, the subtle tang of a kiwi, the saccharine sweetness held within oranges
and we do to them the disservice of dulling them down
just enough to make them fit
mutilated and generalized
we say “fruit.”
we say “fruit”
five letters,
a summation of something larger than could ever be encapsulated by a single word
it is in our nature to categorize
when we see that bowl of mangoes and june plums, ripe with summer,
we say













