How to Eat a Poem / Eve Merriam

Don't be polite. 
Bite in. 
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may run down your chin. 
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. 
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon 
or plate or napkin or tablecloth. 

For there is no core 
or stem 
or rind 
or pit 
or seed 
or skin 
to throw away.