Adam and Eve were on an island loud and vibrant in the middle of the Atlantic and the island wouldn’t go down despite every storm they faced in their relationship since she was the first scientist who
experimented on the swamp waters the insects the exotic trees and he was the first monk who sat in the shade and worked on making peace in his heart despite Eve’s racing thoughts and one day a snake came
down the tree and Adam watched and it sunk it’s fangs into his flesh because Adam had no defense and when Eve came back she saw his predicament and she was really pissed and she sucked out the poison
and made a turniket and a remedy from plants oils and berries and after a week Adam was healed and then he was the first poet and he wrote of how this snake tempted his peace and whether he should have
allowed it or what he could have done it was this snake that was the first cause to imagine resistance as something good and he said Eve I see how you test the waters the bugs the trees and find out what they
will do for survival I’m going with you tomorrow out to explore and they became the first couple that gave up peace for the rest of the world
I might hear on the news,
a woman saying her son was shot down,
killed,
it’s like she just lost the lottery and there will be other days.
Others, a man in Iowa City, before I left there,
his son mistaken at 2 a.m. in back alley with a phone in his hand
for a gun,
shot and killed by police,
father did not rest, He was my hero,
you killed my hero,
every letter into the paper,
every rally he organized,
I had to leave.
My daughter CF, they’re dying at age 22,
beautiful people,
full of promise.