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Poems

SNAKE TALK

From the January 1972 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Genesis 3

What
did the
serpent do
to Eve?
Simply
tempt
her to
believe
that good
and
evil
can
combine
to make
one's
living
more
sublime.
He didn't
touch her
except in
thought,
and if she'd
been correctly
taught to
respond
only
to the
still,
small
voice,
and always
make it her
only choice,
she would never
have chosen to walk
in
the
path
outlined
by
snake talk.

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