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A Book of Second or Third Genesis
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What if Adam had
Eaten first?
On the outside, maybe
Pretty much the same
And on the inside
A righteous change
To history
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Though, of course,
We wouldn’t know it
What we’d know
Is maybe men
Forfending, maybe
Or a readier
Different sort
Of heart from women
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Forgiveness all around
You see,
It’s possible
And it’s possible
Men would have understood
Something more
Of consequence
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Hmm, is it possible
The hurt of childbirth
Might have been
Visited the other way?
And to get us through
Each day,
Might men have learned
To ask direction from
The partner species?
Not because of childbirth
But because,
You know,
Each day
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A second book of Genesis
Isn’t around the
Corner up ahead
Unless there is
A fanciful commission
But a forthcoming way to think
That doesn’t hurt
Except in ego’s pocket
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Might help
A world
(a human world)
That is at present torn up
Over truth
A service, by the way,
Of creativity
To fill
A needful break in solid life
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