Ripeness

Ripeness passes so soon into the overripe.

The firm and perfect banana becomes,

overnight,

fit only for banana bread,

delicious if you have the wit to lard it with walnuts.

The inside Of your avocado morphs

from its smooth green

(the colour of a 1950s refrigerator)

to an inedible pulpy brown.

 

And as with these fruits

so it is with us,

the humans only too aware

of the future that awaits.

During the fateful decade

between 80 and 90

we also morph (more slowly than a banana but faster

than, say, a sea turtle)

into an overripeness

that begs for the surcease

we can attain by resisting

the insistent aid of those

determined to prolong our being

until we are of no more use

than the aforementioned avocado.

 

 

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