Breadfruit

Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,

    Whatever they are,

As bribes to teach them how to execute

Sixteen sexual positions on the sand;

This makes them join (the boys) the tennis club,

Jive at the Mecca, use deodorants, and

On Saturdays squire ex-schoolgirls to the pub

    By private car.

Such uncorrected visions end in church

    Or registrar:

A mortgaged semi- with a silver birch;

Nippers; the widowed mum; having to scheme

With money; illness; age. So absolute

Maturity falls, when old men sit and dream

Of naked native girls who bring breadfruit

    Whatever they are.