mangoes.

Time is now
past noon
 past mid-day/past dark shadows/ past palms as inviting as late night mango slices from the tree that used to grow in our back yard
the one that reminded me food was meant to be climbed for

before I became Pathmark obsessed
too much/too much/too much to choose from/too many choices to make diced/sliced/dried/canned mangoes larger than large/extra large pickled/sweetened/enriched more, more, more mango more!

puffed up mangoes with cherried middles chutneyed mangoes with glazed tops pretty mangoes - skin not bruised - GM mangoes young, untouched, virgin mangoes Mangoes large as watermelons jugs hooters perky mangoes mass production mangoes mangoes/yellow ripe mangoes peel me, peel me don’t look away, you know you want this mango mangoes that remind you of places back home but never the same
We are stronger
 Faster
Bigger
Sturdier
OUR MANGOES ARE BETTER THAN YOUR MANGOES

bully mangoes
mangoes that set standards for other mangoes mangoes
mangoes that declare war on fertile soil mangoes
mangoes with no pits
mangoes with no peels
mangoes with no insides
just mangoes
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 the essence of mangoes
all the smell and succulence of mangoes
but
no marrow mangoes
substance lacking mangoes
mangoes that want to be fruit leader mangoes
 mangoes with army brigade mangoes
mangoes with higher aspiration mangoes
genocide mangoes
homicide mangoes
suicide mangoes
mangoes on crowded buses dismembering limbs mangoes
mangoes armed with swollen triggers mangoes
self-rightgeous, self-imposing mangoes

mangoes with ALL the answers mangoes

pure mangoes
 mango puree mangoes
condensed sweetened mangoes
mangoes disguised as papaya mangoes
mangoes disguised as mamaya mangoes
mangoes following orders mangoes
 mangoes spreading pesticide mangoes
mangoes falling from tall September trees mangoes
mangoes desperate and rotting on NY stands mangoes

MANGOES, MANGOES, MANGOES FOR SALE MANGOES! mangoes for sale for dirt cheap mangoes

mangoes selling out mangoes
mangoes sailing out mangoes
mangoes mangoes mangoes mangoes and won’t ask no questions
mangoes and takes life of others
mangoes and shuts eyes
shuts doors behind him
in front of him
beside him
mangoes and won’t come back

 I say mangoes and won’t come back
mangoes and nothing is gained
just mangoes mangoes mangoes and
too many choices to make and
man goes for sale.