Bananas Became Bats
by 
Jibunnessa
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2003 Word Count: 161 Summary: In my novel 'Shaquilla's Papers', the main narrator, Shaquilla (when she was a teenager), wrote this poem about her eccentric Scottish neighbour, Brenda. |
Big, bearded Brenda
Believes bananas became bats
Biting bruised bodies
Bloodied by being bitten.
Big, bearded Brenda
Believes Brian bought Brenda
beautiful bromeliad bunches.
But Brian boarding boats,
Began bartending beside Bermudan beaches.
“Birds bury bottles beneath balaclava bulbs!
Bavarian beer boosted bright blue beetles
Because brandy becomes bluebells
Battling bravely between beastly Brazilian bees”
Babbled Brenda,
Beard boldly bobbing.
“Baked boysenberry biscuits before breakfast.
Beautifully brown!”
Boasted Brenda biting.
Big, bearded Brenda
Brought buttercup bunches.
Broken between brambles
Beneath big beech branches,
Blackberries bloodied Brenda’s body.
Brenda believes bananas became bats
Biting Brenda’s body.
Because Brian brought bromeliads,
Bats became barmy!
Bothered Brenda badly
Burying Brenda’s beauty
Beneath billion bloody bruises
Brenda becoming batty,
Built bonny bonfires,
Began banana burning.
But, boiling bananas
Blew banana
Bombs
Bombarding Brenda.
Brenda began bawling.
Bosoms brightly burning.
---Jib, 7.20 am, Huang Dao, China, 16 Aug 2001. From the novel, ‘Shaquilla’s Papers’. Shaquilla herself writes this as a teenager, about one of her neighbours.
Believes bananas became bats
Biting bruised bodies
Bloodied by being bitten.
Big, bearded Brenda
Believes Brian bought Brenda
beautiful bromeliad bunches.
But Brian boarding boats,
Began bartending beside Bermudan beaches.
“Birds bury bottles beneath balaclava bulbs!
Bavarian beer boosted bright blue beetles
Because brandy becomes bluebells
Battling bravely between beastly Brazilian bees”
Babbled Brenda,
Beard boldly bobbing.
“Baked boysenberry biscuits before breakfast.
Beautifully brown!”
Boasted Brenda biting.
Big, bearded Brenda
Brought buttercup bunches.
Broken between brambles
Beneath big beech branches,
Blackberries bloodied Brenda’s body.
Brenda believes bananas became bats
Biting Brenda’s body.
Because Brian brought bromeliads,
Bats became barmy!
Bothered Brenda badly
Burying Brenda’s beauty
Beneath billion bloody bruises
Brenda becoming batty,
Built bonny bonfires,
Began banana burning.
But, boiling bananas
Blew banana
Bombs
Bombarding Brenda.
Brenda began bawling.
Bosoms brightly burning.
---Jib, 7.20 am, Huang Dao, China, 16 Aug 2001. From the novel, ‘Shaquilla’s Papers’. Shaquilla herself writes this as a teenager, about one of her neighbours.