Tough Bananas
I'm a banana republic,
and I get your goat.
By the way, did I mention
the ethnic tension in the place
beginning with K?
I will trade you a Kashmir
sweater for a better
banana split.
A body bag is like a banana:
unzip it, and taste the flesh.
One banana, two banana, three banana,
for let us slip on the skin
like a yellow dress. It fits.
No, we have no Kosovo,
we have no Kosovo today.
You are mandarins,
and we are bananas.
[March 1999]