he had age spots on his face

couldnt complain

                   knew too many people who didnt get a shottoo many  who he viewed in their  was their right  they didnt select them  in their coffins and brayed silently that maybe their families didnt share enough coloured photos to drive home the point  how they looked while they were alive and kicking  he understood undertakers makeup cant makeup their deathsbut if movie stars celebrities look so fuckin good he knew they werent that good lookin why not kin and friends 

couldnt complain

    but he could ask

he asked his confidante his daughter

                                           Tell me whaya think

Sure. What ya got?

So youre buying bananas at the grocers Gloriousyellow  Perhaps a slight tinge of green

                                                                                              Jah

Yes.

Some days in they begin to speckle  Small dark spots 

Yes.

      Though not often.

Bananas, ovaries they laughed asif on cue.

                                                   Don’t often make it that long at our place.

But if they did

If small speckles we eat ‘em. Get too large. As I said, infrequent.

                                                                      Warm buttered banana pistachio bread.

Pistachios

            Im impressed

It’s delicious.

I can imagine

                        My question

Is it ripening

Or is it rotting

    Concerned about your age spots, Papa?

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