An Apple In The Mall Poem by RIC BASTASA

there is big difference
between an apple in the mall
and the apple in the farm

the one that still hangs on
the tree which you pick gives
you more happiness than the
one that you buy in the one
of those fruit stalls in the mall.

compare the bird on a cage
and the bird on the branch of a tree
the fish on the river than in that
aquarium or the the star hanging
in the sky than the star in your ceiling.

there is a big difference on the life
that you live that the life that you write
the poem that you write and the
poem that you read....