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Why would you compose a poem to rotting apples?

—Maggi

Why would one compose a poem, you ask,

To rotting apples?

Although long ago

As humans ordinarily count long

Schiller loved to do so—and who knows

Who brought the apples to his study

Or what inspiration entered him

When nostrils dilated to catch and hold

For elevated moments those aromas

Just a rotten apple could produce?

So now you have conjured a new poem,

A sonnet I would hardly have composed,

Only, I spoke of Schiller—and you mocked.

So mockery and playfulness gave birth

To what a rotten apple has brought forth.