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apple pie, no apples
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apple pie, no apples
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fooled a lot of people –
aunts with PhDs
friends from school
my father
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now I lift the crust
from every slice of apple pie
look for evidence –
pin-holes, punched by a machine
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the recipe, simple as substitution
pie crust
sugar
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a shot of lemon, flour to thicken
cream of tartar (to fool taste buds)
a generous dusting
of cinnamon
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and
a stack of soda crackers
snapped in two (hand-broken facsimile
of apple)
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no one ever seemed to notice
the pin-holes, punched by a machine
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Published as ‘apple pie, no apples’, Canadian Stories 17 (95), February/March 2014
For a recipe for Mock Apple Pie, see https://nichepoetryandprose.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/growing-and-gathering-learning/
Copyright 2014 Jane Tims
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