The Fanny Farmer banana bread recipe, revised

First, I set the stage. I turn the oven on to 350, wondering why most everything turns out okay at 350. Then with a little butter, I grease the breadpan, wondering why everything tastes okay with butter.
I take my three bananas,
Soft and yellow with brown-flecked skins,
And release them from their bindings into the silver steel bowl.
I smash them methodically with the back of a fork,
six four-tined marks on each banana,
Then slowly mushed and mixed into lumpy-smooth golden yellow paste.
I take two white eggs, smooth and perfect,
And with a satisfying THWACK crack them
So that I can pour the clear white and good-morning-sunshine yolk
Out of their porcelain casing into the bowl,
Where they are blended with the banana.
3/4ths of a cup of crystalline sugar,
Sparkling, scintillating, sweet natural glitter.
It pours from the cup like the sands of time,
Measuring out life as we know it.
My Mother measured sugar, my daughters will measure sugar,
My Great-Grandma borrowed a cup of sugar from the neighbors and met my Great-Grandpa.
2 cups of flour, Soft and gentle. It flows over my fingers like silk, into the bowl. White flour is so elegant and refined, so adaptable to every occasion. Like Stepan Arkedyvitch Oblonsky in Anna Karenina.
1 teaspoon of salt. Salt is sharp, biting, on the tongue, on your cuts, rubbed between your fingers, but salt just makes things taste good. It's lively and warm and awake. It is the cure for insipidity, so often a trait of the aforementioned flour.
1 teaspoon of the magic powder, fine white Sodium Bicarbonate, so that the bread can rise.
I don't have a cup of walnuts or chocolate chips to stir in, but that's okay. It's quite nice without.
I mix it all together, it's lumpy, but it's supposed to be. I pour it into the pan, scraping with a rubber spatula, not wanting to waste any of the stiff, sticky batter. As it bakes it makes the house smell warm and sweet and happy, like a home should smell. And when it's done, we all gather around, eating slices of tender banana bread with it's crunchy crust, spread with soft, melting butter.