Amanda Burgess

Edward Little High School



Bananas that are too old by two days

In customary spooning fashion lay.

They’re ready to be taken up and peeled

and placed in mixing bowl to make a yield

of creamy smooth conglomeration sweet

with ova of Rhode Island Red (that’s two)

and sixteen ounces sugar you must beat

with half a cup of shortening in the brew.

To this you add the grindings of some wheat,

that’s twenty ounces added to make paste,

some baking soda (half a teaspoon neat)

and sodium chloride to make it taste.

The oven causes, by producing heat

reincarnation of the golden treat.