Rick Benjamin - The Juice In It lyrics

[for Reed] When the woman in the parable runs from the tigers to the cliff-edge she is simply jumping toward the saving vine. Only later does she notice the strawberries. When my twin brother hands me a ripe strawberry in California he wants me to admire every bit of its sweetness before tossing it tongue-ward, which he knows I will not do, & that is why he is already disappointed. In the letter he writes weeks later he says he knew I'd just pop it, whole, into my mouth without even thinking about it, juice dripping down my chin. Which is what she does in the parable when she knows she's going to die: tigers on the cliff-edge, tigers on the ground, & a mouse eating through the stem of the vine. What should she do but reach for the ripest strawberry she can find? He wants me to linger. I can already taste it.