Poetry Friday: "I love you. I'm glad I exist." (Wendy Cope's "The Orange")

The Orange
by Wendy Cope 

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange –
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave –
They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do

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(Read the last few lines and/or hear the poem read aloud here.) 

Wendy Cope talks (only a wee bit) about the origins of the poem here. 

and now I want the pin.

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The Poetry Friday round-up is being hosted this week by Michelle Kogan. 

Photo courtesy of Pixabay.