Apple

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Written on the occasion of seeing an appealing young lady eat an apple

I saw you eating an apple.
You were slicing it so carelessly
that I suddenly became aware
of the value of letters.
And you ate it – and
IT FELT LIKE TEMPTATION.
I imagined myself Adam who
is staring and sees
the importance of an apple –
a crucial, a vital, a...
I realised that Adam never even
thought about the only one of God's commandments.

He never thought about it –
Adam simply had it –
an apple – and it tasted like the world.

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