More Than Once Upon A Time
On the first day of spring Adam
found he was sprung
(an amazing physique which was
very well hung)
but he hadn’t a clue what that
one piece was for
till a rib was removed and was
tossed on the floor
(or the ground, we should say,
since it wasn’t a room—
without roof, doors, or windows,
no need to assume
that a visiting neighbor would
soon make a call—
there was no need for privacy,
none for a wall
in those days before anyone else
would arrive)
then he noticed his spare rib had
started to thrive.
On the first day of summer, young
Eve came around,
more lithesome and lovely than
all else he found
and he noticed another bone
rising in awe,
overwhelmed by the shape of the
creature he saw.
The hint of her smile would
entice his first grin
and he sensed what he thought was
original—sin—
when she reached for an apple and
offered a bite
as they fell to the ground where
they spent their first night.
The first fall arrived with their
fall before dawn
(the seasons were young; summer
came and was gone)
but the sunrise that day brought
a chill to the air
and the garden they lay in was
suddenly bare
because winter had brought the
first fall to its close
and the cold, not their shame,
showed them they needed hose,
pants, and shirts, even hats to
protect their bare breasts,
thighs and nethers and heads,
from their toes to their crests
as they headed out east in their
search for fresh loam.
Where the first day had dawned,
they might find a new home.
Soon, spring sprung again as did
women and men
from the body of Eve since they
still had a yen
for the apple they tasted upon
their first date—
hence an orchard was first to put
food on their plate.
They tilled and they toiled, they
roasted and boiled
the food that was needed to feed
their new brood
but it seems that today, though
they each had their way,
their descendants condemn that first coupling as lewd.
What’s Needin’ in Eden
We don’t know their first
position,
although there’s a supposition
that a serpent had directed
what the two had long suspected
was the purpose of the difference
seen between their legs,
vociferance
shouting what design made clear—
that two of them should gather
near,
discover what it’s all about
and learn both inside and without
why they’re alike yet not the
same,
as if designed to play a game
by taking hold of parts unknown
of which the two had both been
shown
before they gave a fig or two
to hide behind what they now knew
was waiting there without
disguise
while his, of course, to their
surprise
had learned to stand up and to
prance,
and so, they chose to take a
chance
and taste the fruit beneath the
trees
where they would play like birds and bees.
The World’s First Picnic (in
50 Words)
They used Adam’s sparerib to fix
a companion to serve him picnics.
The very first one that Eve made
offered apples and fig marmalade.
Just one bite of apple
would cause them to grapple
and once Adam’s eye
noticed Eve’s breast and thigh,
her buffet was the first ever laid.
Fishing in the Eastern Sea (50
words)
Since they didn’t get a pardon
and they had to leave the garden,
do you wonder how long Adam
took to find himself a madam,
and while wand’ring east of Eden,
looking for what he was needin’,
while fair Eve played him the
cuckold,
did he wonder why she chuckled?
Hayseeds
Morning had broken
when Eve was woken
by the first dawning of a new
day.
East of the garden,
begging none’s pardon,
once Adam sowed, they rolled in
the hay.
