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"Bananas."

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"Yellow, bright, always
seemingly sunlit, and shapely.

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And even though there are
age spots and bruises,

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brown, freckled,
striated, remind us

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of the hands of those always
beautiful once-young women, who

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fillet their fish
with the slow dignity

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of the eternally beheld.

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Even so, the banana can be seen
as anything but a common prop

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in its single indefatigable
aspiration, which is its arc.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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[LAUGHS]

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If you remember the
Nixon at [INAUDIBLE]----

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I got to tell this joke.

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The Nixon [INAUDIBLE] right?

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I saw you on TV the other night.

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They said, why did you
vote in this election?

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You said, I'm afraid of
the death of capitalism,

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or of democracy?

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Something like that.

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Anyway.

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[LAUGHS]

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Peyronie's disease,
you know what that is?

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A man can get that
from calcification

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in their penis, which makes
it tilted a little bit.

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And other things happen with it.

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But this is just another way
of talking about a banana.

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[LAUGHS]

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"Phallic, chronically,
her [INAUDIBLE],, children

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use it as a penis puppet,
tucked between the legs,

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thrust forward in imitation
of their elders, though bowed,

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can't droop or sag.

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The pulpy flesh tastes unlike
most anything but pretty good.

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After the milk, among the first
things tasted, woody, sweet,

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the toothless lover, to sit
across the table from Great

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Aunt So-and-So and watch her
strip it with arthritic twists,

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and take the first chomp with
her lips, then pause, then gum

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the morsel, smile, unable
for blessed moments to speak,

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gives the family pleasure.

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[LAUGHS]

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You can feel it
absentmindedly, while thinking

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of something else,
your newest big idea,

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your latest adoration of
someone else's spouse,

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and maintain possession
of perspective.

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Skin, useless for anything
but practical jokes.

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Though, have you ever seen
an actual person actually

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slip for a moment, horizontal on
the precarious cushion of air,

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then fall flat on his back?

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Smooth enough, I knew a woman
who tried it as a dildo.

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Put it anywhere, kitchen
counter, coffee table,

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as a still life among the pears
and apples, those candidates

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for inspiration.

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And tiny winged things
that were not there

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a moment ago will suddenly
blink into visibility

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in a burlesque of
flight, clumsy as drunks,

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then fall onto the
banana, bounce, fall back.

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Tuck so closely on the trunk,
they look endearingly familiar,

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like bees, like bats, nursing
at the mother of all of us."

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