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In truth there was never a snake or an apple;
and they knew already about lust, had known forever
what creature didn’t
It was that they lived long
saw the wolf and the tiger grow old and die
saw the tree fern and gingko wither and fall
saw even the snake
become food for vultures
It wasn’t sex they discovered
it wasn’t the knowledge of good and evil
they discovered death
and, terrified, they invented God
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