12.BANANA LADY

Sales happen more not coz of the product, but how well u present them. Who knows better, if not Banana lady here.

 

Banana lady

 

Husband the bread earner

With bananas basket on head

Set out that morning

Towards the market center

 

Thoughts lingering on

Outstanding debts to be paid

Daughter needs school uniform

Wife needs groceries for kitchen

 

Sales be better good today

People don’t buy any more!

I am not bad salesman!

Owner of inherited business

 

Making up his mind firm

Keeping his spirits high

Bids bye kiss to his wife

 Watching her gentle smile

 

Its sun set, evening

Wife eagerly awaits her hubby

Here he comes, head down

Spirits low, heart broken

 

She inquires with concern

Heyy what happened!

Is everything fine?

Hope bananas sold well!!

 

Oh! Bad pretty bad

Don’t know what’s wrong

No body buy banana anymore

It wasn’t so before

 

Wife consoles him

Don’t you worry

Let me go tomorrow

See what went wrong

 

The man in him thought

Ah! What she can sell

 Woman never did before

Let me wait he thought

 

Next day wife sets out

He couldn’t wait her return

Wanted to see his wife

Selling bananas

 

Near the market finds

A great rush people

One on another

Pushing each other

 

Hey what u doing!!!

(Wife squatting position revealing)

People watch, you don’t you see!!

Of course I do

Also know all bananas sold

 

Pal

 

Poem n Video by Pal

50.Banana lady

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oaqNca4C4uk

 

Reviews

[ABBY]

amazing poem i really really liked it

[Gandré]

yes intelligence is not a thing about education. It is something you are born with. One can raise it a little bit by education and positive environment. But actually yes, so many educated ppl still don't know what clicks in life. I enjoyed your stanzas and the simple way how you wrote this. Great writing, within its subtle tragicomic wit.

[TL Boehm]

I'm not sure what exactly it is that I truly enjoy about this poem...perhaps the minimal lines - perhaps the subtle humor....in what is NOT said. What ever it is - it worked for me.

[Kuntry]

Sex Sales....lol

[M I N D Y]

hahaha... excellent. women do know how to market things well don't they? nice concept... love the surprise ending.

but she have no banana today

[Marie]

Great write, Pal.

[SM Davis]

Never send a man to do a woman's job!!! LOL great write!

[Nicole (Carpe Diem)]

well it has been said that women do things better than men... so this lady shows the 'money shot' to get the bananas sold... they were all gone ... maybe if her hubby thought of something like that he would have sold the bananas too... ha ha

so fun and entertaining to read... great write...

[Fran Marie]

A funny and creative write~ Well Penned~Fran Marie

[musegirlsm]

This cracked me up!!!!!! You really tricked me with this. First I was sad for the husband, I thought maybe he would go home all broken and the wife would say that it's alright you did your best, then I thought, well the wife is going to sell more and he will be angry and sad and have to learn that a woman can do the job also, but you tricked me because I never guessed your ending! It was so funny. She is one shrewd woman!

This was a very clever write!

sandra