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Issue 1, USFCA Alum Poetry

Bananas

Eat the grapes, or the plums. Leave the bananas,his mother said. Bananas were only for special occasions.When he went to someone’s home,if offered bananas, he wasn’t supposed to take them.It was considered rude, his mother had told him.They are too much. Now, in America, bananas are commonplace.To me, they aren’t even one of the better fruits.He eats them sometimes,but you can tellhe doesn’t really knowwhat to do with them. I never liked bananas.When I was a kid, I turned my nose up at …

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