What’s that book with an orange on top? / Is the citrus some kind of a prop? / More a sweet illustration / of the book’s deviation, / and a kind of mechanical crop. /// What’s the novel in which Alex purges / all his violent, creative urges? / Metal mainsprings unwind / like this fruit’s spiral rind. / “Clockwork Orange,” by Anthony Burgess.
What’s that book with an orange on top? / Is the citrus some kind of a prop? / More a sweet illustration / of the book’s deviation, / and a kind of mechanical crop. /// What’s the novel in which Alex purges / all his violent, creative urges? / Metal mainsprings unwind / like this fruit’s spiral rind. / “Clockwork Orange,” by Anthony Burgess.