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__Twelve Ways of Looking at a Pineapple:__ a tribute to Wallace Stevens

1. Among the forest canopy the crown on top of a pineapple shines brightly like a golden egg.

2. Spindly spikes pointing up, always on the look out.

3. The spikes are the armour protecting the yellow food.

4. The pineapple sat on top of the tree like a golden halo: the villager climbed the tree to seek the treasures it possessed.

5. Look a turtle! You can see its shell.

6. As the pineapple wears its crown, its sharpness becomes a burden.

7. It’s green halo grows above its head, green, smooth, it glows of glows of the sun.

8. The pineapple creates attention around itself, as it comes in pieces on a plate.

9. Once beautiful, nice and free, now not even a rarity.

10. What monstrous mother bore this thorny egg?

11. The pineapple, a very dull person, or maybe just very quiet.

12. Twelve birds may fly, but the pineapple is grounded.