English

Emilie Booth

5 August, 22:06

A pineapple is the perfect gift

to bring to a blind date.

A pineapple is like a blind date:

spiky and armored at first,

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with the hope of sweetness inside.

A pineapple is the perfect housewarming gift.

You don't have to wrap it,

it doesn't spill inside your car.

It comes in its own house.

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A pineapple is the perfect birthday gift.

You might prefer a coconut,

that planet molten1 at the core,

but the pineapple has a better hairdo,

better wardrobe; it never

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goes out of style.

Think of all those historic houses

with pineapple bolsters, 2 pineapple finials, 3

pineapples carved above lintels. 4

Such a sophisticated5 fruit:

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every sailor wants one.

How is the speaker's discussion of pineapples' presence in architecture important to the poem?