by Gilbert Sorrentino
Goliathus goliathus, the one banana
peeling beetle in the U S A, brighter
than a comicstrip, is dead.
"Wrapped in his native grasses," left
on the doorstep of the museum
and a favorite of the visitors,
4 and 1 half inches long with an
8 inch wingspread, bigger than
Skeezix, with a life more full,
peeling his bananas for survival,
unlike Mamie Mullins, unlike Moon,
who would be Skeezix but for
the environment, ah! Who cares
or believes in them at all, at all,
goliathus was better and he
not a native.
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