Eve never Swallowed (The making of Eve)

She never swallowed.

Never.

Adam would confirm
the truth if he could testify.

He was standing by the tree
the day the rumor started.
All three of them were there.

“I am telling you she never swallowed.

Yes, there was a snake in the area.
Yes, she knocked off a fruit.
She was only hungry
and wanted to know.

She pulled on it
bit it, sucked it.
She then spit out the mouthful
because she said it tasted
salty…or bitter.
Or heavy.
We had not made up the word yet.”

Sisters, brothers
look at us, the proof is here.

Police in riot gear.
A young girl fucked and strangled.
Both burned: Crosses and Joan.
Politics, hate, guns.
Toxic shit.
Slavery. Religion. War.
Hunger.
Eons later, we still hunger.

Eve never swallowed.
If she did,
she would have known the outcome
of the experiment, and Adam
would have never fathered children.