a picture & a poem: a. e. stallings!

four fibs by a. e. stallings
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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.

(picture by me//poem source)