Apple
Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, coldcream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a greenseen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a littlepiece please.
A little piece please. Cane again to the presupposed and readyeucalyptus tree, count out sherry and ripe plates and little corners ofa kind of ham. This is use.
Words in this poem
- bake v. t.
- To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Apple is in the public domain. This text is taken from Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms, Project Gutenberg ebook #15396; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Gertrude Stein, Apple, in Tender Buttons (1914), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #15396, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/stein-tender-buttons/food-apple.html, id L28697.
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