The Banana of Mystery

Oh mighty banana lying on the side of the road
Nestled in the grasses being eyed by a toad
How didest thou end up in such a predicament?
Did you walk here yourself?
Which would shake all belief and the firmament

The answer lies in a clue nearby
An errant left hand glove
Now out of season
Laying not far from a pencil
And a small plastic Pokemon figure

This was the kid's bus stop area
MY kids

Leaving things all about the place
Is really just their modus operandi
Common to them in every way
Demonstrated as I trip over their things

Every day

Viewed as such
The banana wasn't anything unusual
Except for the fact that I'd found it before it had gotten rotten
Really only hours after it had been left there
Inexplicably by itself in the grass

I may ask them about it
Though the answer will be a typical "I don't know"
Or the all too frequent "I don't remember"
As to the reason why

So I'm taking it to work with me
I bought and paid for this pernicious plantain
And if by some small chance
A nefarious plot was undertaken
To poison bananas and leave them near children's bus stops in rural Michigan

Well
It's been nice knowing you