The Uncertainty of the Poet by Wendy Cope

‘The Tate Gallery announced yesterday that it had paid 1 million pounds for a Giorgio de Chirico masterpiece, The Uncertainty of the Poet. It depicts a torso and a bunch of bananas.' (Guardian, 2 April 1985)

I am a poet.
I am very fond of bananas.

I am bananas.
I am very fond of a poet.

I am a poet of bananas.
I am very fond,

A fond poet of ‘I am, I am' –
Very bananas,

Fond of 'Am I bananas,
Am I?' - a very poet.

Bananas of a poet!
Am I fond?' Am I very?

Poet bananas! I am.
I am fond of a ‘very'.

I am of very fond bananas.
Am I a poet?