I wish it was my apple tree

Some still hang
like ornaments,
bright and red
and shiny

others make like
polka dots, red on
green, beneath
the tree.

The ones that
fill the gutter
line up like bowling
balls in the automated
return.

Is it the imperfections,
or it it because they're not
already picked, in a bag,
in a store?

I wish it was my
apple tree.