BANANAS

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.]