The girl said she knew Brago loved to eat,
just from the size of his big belly.
But one thing, she said,
she never saw him eat,
was banana.
One time, the wife brought home a nice hand of fig, she said.
and Brago threw it in the bin.
A whole hand of banana, just gone to waste.
All the neighbours heard screaming, but didn’t know what it was.
The girl said it was Brago running down the road.
Thought it was Lajabless, she said. Only to find out, was Brago.
And then the explosion. The whole of Valsayn shook.
Around eleven, twelve o’clock – BOOM!
And Brago’s house burned down.
Lost everything he had. Even the wife left him and went back to town.
Last she heard, the girl said, he end up in Toco, hauling fish in somebody boat.’
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