why.i.hate.el.paso.texas

Why do I hate el paso texas?

Because

--e.g.--

apples here are never, never

never really fresh;

and, it is always, always, always very disappointing,

--when,

an apple in hand,

I imagine,

I expect,

I want,

to have my tongue seduced,

tickled,

flooded,

BUT,

instead,

there is something less,

less taste,

less juice,

less life.......

Only

the remnants of what used to be a fresh apple.

And anyway there is that incalculable, unknowable element:

was this apple the product of genetic modification?