Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Innocence

Nature is not ashamed,
even though its behavior is outrageous.
That’s innocence for you!
We all know who gets the blame
in the pages
of Scripture. But was the snake ashamed
when they framed
Eve, and then Adam,
in that snapshot of Glory—
the original Primal Scene, described by Freud
in his book Ontogeny Repeats Phylogeny?
We won’t have to be ashamed,
because we’ll all just be acting the same
as our ancestors, on that Great Gettin’-up Morning
when our innocence will be explained
to us, and we’ll know who got whose
berth on this hot cruise to Tierra del Fuego.
The dice are not ashamed.
That’s innocence for you!