Juices

Orange, the blue-collar breakfast workhorse
Pomegranate, trendy, expensively bottled
Tomato, with or without warming dash of Tabasco
Guava, shy, delicate, eternal maiden blush
Apple, modest wallflower aging to brash cider
Apricot, pulp-thick liquid gold and tangy
Grape, tooth-staining heavy Concord-purple
Mango, exotic distillate of tropical sunshine

I don't care for carbonated colas and fizzers
or energy-vitamin-caffeine sport supplements,
fifteen-percent fruit-juice cocktails sweetened
with white grape or pear or high-fructose corn.
Give me a fresh-squeezed fruit in a glass
with plenty of pulp to stick in my teeth.

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