At a Fruit Store
by Choi Young-Mi
translated into English by Chong-Min Hong '96
You each came,
The apple not knowing the peach
The peach not knowing the grape
The grape not knowing the sulky apricot
Yet how,
having each come from such different homes,
one autumn afternoon,
tenderly leaning your backs on each other,
like husbands and wives,
pushing and pulling -
this one world becomes more beautiful.
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