A Sonnet About Bananas

Like yellow princes, we’re the noblest fruit,
Up front and center in the grocer’s display.
Everyone loves us like pirates love loot,
Like seaside summers, we’re cheerful and gay.

Potassium-rich, with practical peels,
We’re easy to grab and toss in your pack.
Eat us while driving or in between meals,
The perfect, natural, hundred-cal’rie snack!

We only ask to be eaten quickly,
Before that villain time can steal our looks.
Not bad, but unappealingly brown, we
Are tossed or given to someone who cooks.

With spotted peels we face the fate we dread,
As we are mashed and mixed and baked in bread.