5615. EARLY MORNING AUTO DE FA

EARLY MORNING 

AUTO DE FA

Oh shit too soon for this : I crawled from bed

for the banana man to see or be seen? The early

morning set-up beckons. How he lines the fruit,

and how all those people come swarming over. 

I've seen, I swear, a hundred young ladies on the

way to the office buying bananas one at a time.

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What reckoning then is any of this : all truth be

told we always stand alone. Some sluice-pipe

coffee vagrants, yes, they're still around but fewer 

and far between  -  as if some new Columbus has

came and upon departing taken then all away. He

brings them back home in ship-hold, to parade as

natives before some Ferdinand and Isabella of his

own devise. Jeez, I wish I was sick-in-the-head again.

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Oh damn. I can pray all I wish to the highest of Heavens, 

but all the words fall flat, and the banana man gets the girls.