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# Tell Me About It
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/tell-me-about-it/
- Published: 2021-07-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Was it an apple or an orange that William Tell shot off his head? Perhaps a tangerine instead, or better yet, a ripe old melon, exploding as the chap was yellin’. Perhaps. It’s easier to grapple with rhyming about tha...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Was it an apple or an orange  
that William Tell shot off his head?  
Perhaps a tangerine instead,  
or better yet, a ripe old melon,  
exploding as the chap was yellin’.  
Perhaps. It’s easier to grapple  
with rhyming about that red apple.  
Certainly easier than orange.  
Even if standing within bow range