Troublesome Fruit

Poetry

Troublesome Fruit*

Nothing rhymes with banana

Except perhaps mañana

And nothing rhymes with orange

Unless you count the word borange?

Less exotic, the grape and the apple

Still leave us with less words to grapple

And I discover when I turn to grapefruit

Well that just leaves words like brute.

There’s little more tricky than pineapple

You’re left stretching words …