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# Warding off Scurvy
- URL: https://www.merionwest.com/warding-off-scurvy/
- Published: 2021-11-14T19:30:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-17T21:28:21.000Z
- Description: “Because there’s little more to friendship than warding off scurvy or having a catch.”
- Author: Erich J. Prince
- Tags: Poetry, Arts, Legacy, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-05-06 12:48

> When you find an orange on the trail, be sure to play with it for an hour or two.

> Until you tire and decide to eat it,

> round things come back to you when you toss them up in the air,

> unless it’s the sun, which hangs forever.

> But once you eat any fruit, you see it no longer, and when you’re fruitless,

> no one will befriend you.

> Because there’s little more to friendship than warding off scurvy or having a catch.

> And if you step in a puddle and get a tapeworm, not even all the oranges in Madagascar

> will get them to be friends with you again.

### *Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief of Merion West.*