Sunday, September 6, 2020

BIRDS OF PARADISE





Is that Eve up there, a-sulking ‘cause her man can’t see the logic?

Wasn’t she Out there beneath The Tree in a mood so damned romantic?



Starry-eyed and light of heart, returned she from that cad

and talked of talking serpents smart, when he shouted Are you mad?!



Then fish would fly and gold would grow on trees

and the breeze

would carry messages through raindrops and on leaves;

Believe I will, all that and more but this is poppycock

I won’t Believe these extra-mural tales that animals talk!



Look at her as she showers praise upon the slithering devil

the couple hotly do debate on the fruit o’ the Tree of Evil

The dumb to speak have started

I felt so much outsmarted



She screamed at him: How can that reach our level!?



Indeed ‘tis Eve, she oped our eyes to question our beliefs

and then the inner core to hide she offered us fig leaves.




ALTERNATELY:


Is that Eve

that showers praise

upon the slithering devil

in paradise where

Adam & Eve

Did debate

Upon a fruit

that got the dumb

to speak

and should have made us

god-like more

and smarter

than animals

that didn't need

fig leaves.