green lusty apple worms

I have since long ago decried
insane resort to evil pesticide.

as to my back-quad fruiting trees
that thrive—and I do so! abide—
it seems I’ve come to terms
with Mother Nature’s

pressing health concerns.

I share delicious apples—
enthusiastically and delightedly!—
with backyard birds, their gung-ho germs,
and those green lusty apple worms.

the thing that pleases me so happily?
when fall has come, they split
whatever they have left …

with starving me.