1
Did 
Eve
believe
or grapple
over the apple?
Eavesdropping Adam heard her say
to the snake-oil salesman she was not born yesterday.

2
Miss,
This
is not
Bliss. Wisdom
is not the abyss,
but visceral innocence. Kiss
the windfall of the world, she heard him whisper, or hiss.

3
Not
me.
Not me!
Cried all three.
“You shall creep the earth.
And you shall labor giving birth.
And as for you, you shall toil and sweat for all you’re worth.”


4
Cross
your
heart and     
hope to die,
stick a needle in
your eye. That is the awful oath
of childhood, chapter and verse, genesis of the lie.