gliding by

she was standing next to a shopping cart
when i went gliding by
looking for her bag of orange tangerines
but i wanted to make her the apple of my eye
her peaches seemed ripe and oh so inviting:
could there be something to make the vegetables more exciting
other than a massive carrot or an anxious onion skin
lining up for the human race and determined to win
by a country mile or the slimmest hair on an unshaven chin.