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Beginnings and Endings
And so Confabulo, when you consider
the inhabitants of this storied world
‘beginning’, ‘legend’, call it as your bent
where hero, heroine, innocence and guilt
interact across the stage of time
While slithering from its branch or from
the undergrowth, a serpentine depiction
with an Evil plan. On whom should we now
blame our banishment from bliss: this man?
this woman? this tree on which fruit of
temptation grows? And what design
the gardener in planting?
Consider perhaps the serpent as a worm
sown not in a garden but in our minds
And thereby hangs a tale of curiosity
which in its telling, tells our world, our history
© Johnmichael Simon
2012
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