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Bad Apple Can Be Useful

basket of green and red apples 
fullscreen fruitful seeds planted 
rotten apples in my eyes
have no demise
I find useful rotten fruit laying
in the middle of the group
for the abused and bruised make apple juice
I fuse, fry and make a pie
the beaten and battered were never shattered or tasteless
will always find a place for the thought to be wasted
why misplace a whole basket for just a 2 bad apples
must not be organic
maybe Monsanto GMO
now no apples in my reach
responsibilities hanging from the orchard waiting to ripe
red or green no matter
never make the same mistake twice.
genetically modifying Johnny Appleseed to tell a lie
I guess that's what happens when artificial changes natural
roll the dice pay the price when you mess with the seed of life 
ALL GONE no more seeds, WE DIE

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Eric Boddie

Date: 2/10/2018 2:21:00 PM

the real drug dealers are the ones....trying to kill the world's daughters and sons....all for the sake of making a buck....they poison the food, air and water, looks like we're out of luck....large pharmaceutical companies are constantly manufacturing disease....so we'll have to depend on their pills, they got us on our knees....awesome write michael....

Michael Ruiz
Date: 2/10/2018 7:07:00 PM

thank you Eric I hope their is enough positive people in this world to make change. maybe instead of monetary motive. how about using moral motives or decisions based off merit. luck is an idea just like change.. as long as we believe and mean "no doubt" actually believe in ideas like luck , hope ,love, or any individual belief system of positivity then they can only materialize our emotion and give the illusion that our luck is lost. ITS not gone and it never has been as long as YOU know that