For Buddy, Stevie and Dave
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Look what the loquat
Arranged for the orange
And the apricot!
A peach of a poem
By Lemn Sissay
About a young damson
And an elder berry
Who became a pear,
Tied the nut
Before Curate Quince
In the Apple Chapel,
Fruited and multiplied,
And leafed happily,
Amid figs, cherries and plums
And other poet trees,
Until the end of lime.
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