Bananarama

When selecting bananas

is it best to pick

them with green

on the ridges

or full yellow

are you tempted

to take

a hand of bananas

that features Star Wars or Incredibles stickers

or one

that modestly sports

the traditional blue Chiquita label

and when you display them

do you hang them

on a hook

or put them in a bowl

with apples and oranges

and when do you

change the display

when they first develop

age spots

or when the freckles merge

and become a uniform

brown skin tone

do you let them

detach from their stems

and fall from the hook

or do you rescue them

before they start to dangle

by a thread

and how do you consume

the sweetest ones

when they are

so ripe and squishy?

do you slice them on icecream

or start thinking about

making

banana bread

so as not to waste
the banana at its best
even if not the nicest texture:
Cogito ergo sum

bake if you dare
therefore
the banana.