Murder in Eden

 

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a poem by Joshua Brown

If I spent five more coins

Of golden value worth mill

On things I wanted to buy

But guilt felt enough to hide

From spouse I had engaged

The deepest parts of myself

The draw of market and sale

Value in and out for wealth

I should not wonder depth

Of my own curiosities' bound

If in moment of shallow wed

My will had consummated it

Escape I did though by painful

Shattering of small child's hope

Unchosen to be alive herself

What shall she break to grow?

Escape the matrix of women

Who reject men, unconscious

And choose men unconscious.

Not daughter, but girl I choose

A woman is not an object of

Identity chosen for her, rather

She is a creative film directar 

By millennia of evolution holy

Handed herself the scripture

To choose actors, and scenes

But no amount of creative time

Will help her rush the gates

For the studio she grew up in

Is a shadow of reality but not

For to run her own production

Is no choice of hers but forced

And to dwell among the old

Hags that propagandize girls

To hate the courageous and

Receive unto them the coward

For this, backwards, broken Eve

Stayed behind and shouted out

Adam for his failure to abide

By the rules of the Great Vineyarder.

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Thanks for reading "Murder in Eden" which was written on RTD bus route 169 in Aurora, Colorado, United States, North America on February 9, 2023. Also check out this poem, it's called "Haze of a West Toll Gate Creek Afternoon." It's a haiku that captures a moment along... the West Toll Gate Creek.

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