Nearly cut off my fingers

Young coconuts on sale
A taste of the tropics, you’d say
With plastic straws for sipping
That refreshing sweet juice within
But where to get a bolo machete
For that jelly meat in its belly?

So you go about laboring
The way you’d seen husking
Voila! But the shell needed cracking
And your kitchen knife nearly taking

Three of your fingers
For that sweet flesh
Now you know better.
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