BANANAS

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Bananas
are benevolent
providers

of delight
for our tongue,

and fuels
for our body;

they too
can be

the measures
of terror

sowed
by perpetrators

of naked power
in tropical princedoms.

[Writ. 27 Sept., 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]