When apples aren't enuf

When apples aren't enuf is a poem written by beat-poet Arnis Radis. It placed third the the 1989 World Spice Beatbox Championship.

Inspiration

Radis has cited his inspriation for the poem as the "eternal struggle of man and nature." In an later interview, he said:

Well, when I was writing "When apples..." I was in a really bad place, you know? I wanted to convey my everyday and mundane, yet metaphysical struggle, through the medium of fruit poetry.

Poem

The text is as follows:

I look outside my flat

and that

is the key

the key to me

I see my thirst

it's worst

in the day time

the lame time

What quenches it?

Is it love?

Is it stuff?

When apples aren't enuf

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