Take for example, figs. A few (not quite ripe) are available -- sporadically. Soon, time & harvest will remedy. Figs aplenty. Yummy. The poems change to accommodate the shape of women & their taste.
Those delicious not-fresh-fig-season marinated dried figs w/fennel will wait their time.
In due course he snapped back to the roadside
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on the table by the bowl of figs
the wine glass still half full of sherry
The question he asked himself was half in anger
Should I return to get my wallet or send for it
And what messenger shall I use
if I can't remember exactly what cafe I was in?