Bananas

Bananas are purportedly one of the anodynes for suicide along with the movie of the same title which can still cheer you up. Is Banana Republic utopia rather than being a line of clothes? The secret ingredient is apparently potassium. United Fruit now known as Chiquita Banana should use it in their ads. The suicide hot line could use them out like condoms which bananas have been used for in emergencies. The only downside about bananas is that you can slip on them which is definitely a "downer." OK let’s say you have an aversion to raw bananas. There is banana bread and most importantly the banana split. Back in the 50s and 60z when no one even worried and normalcy prevailed you could get yr second banana split free at an ice cream parlor named Jan’s provided of course you finish your first. Or maybe the was just Sundays

read "The Wasteland" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn