Mile High Embarressment
...e colors maroon and purple. On closer observation streaks of pink and purple appear to be bleeding through like a cheap coat of house paint. The apple is covered with hundreds of tiny pink pecks, most no larger than the head of a pin. They remind me of the stars that clutter the sky on a clear night. The apple has been waxed and polished to a brilliant shine. The room’s lighting is reflected off the apple’s surface. Reflections of other objects can be seen on the apple’s surface when the lighting conditions are just right. The wax coat is not a natural apple-growing phenomenon, but is done by the vendors and store merchants to preserve the apple’s color and enhance the appetite of the consumer. The apple’s surface appears to be smooth. A drop of water placed anywhere except the pit of the apple, would easily run from the apple’s top to the bottom without slowing. Although the apple’s surface is smooth it is not without imperfections. Easily the naked eye can see flat spots and ridges encompassing the apple. These flat spots and ridges diminish any hope the apple might have had for a perfectly symmetrical existence. One could compare the apple’s surface to a mountainous highway; the automobile ride remains smooth even though the climb and descent of the automobile through the mountains is in constant affect. When you pick up the apple with your hand, tiny pits and small ridges in the apple’s surface become more apparent. The apple feels solid, but not like steel, more like a fully inflated car tire, just the slightest amount of sponginess, strong yet vulnerable. The top of the apple could be compared to a human’s naval, that is, if the human being compared has a belly button that extends inward. The apple’s lifeline or apple core vine is missing. If you look where the a...