Banana Woman

She threw the banana skin down in a clear act of defiance
nay a challenge a Take that! you arrogant so and so a
Put that in your pipe and smoke it! sort of action
or maybe not maybe

She carefully peeled away that banana's yellow cladding
a little spotted she noted then raised the exposed fruit
high in the air and cried Viva la Banana! and everyone
in the cantina held their breath to see what happened next
or perhaps

She's in her F250 diesel bumping and jostling down
open country roads in the wilds of Hawai'i when
through the open window she flings the banana skin
like a limp starfish legs akimbo into the bushes
but she misses and the banana skin smacks into
the Caution Nene Crossing sign and sticks there
splayed out for several days until a county roads
worker stands before the sign with a long bamboo
pole pushing and poking until the now brown
decaying sunburnt skin drops to the ground where
he leaves it walking away with a sense of job
well done leaving the banana skin to rot into
the ground like so much compost
perhaps that's how it went or perhaps perhaps

She was being followed and she blithely threw
down the banana skin into the dark and listened
hard making her way forward listened until
she heard the cry Aaaah! and The Fall