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I live in a house full of
scientists it sometimes seems.

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And they're always
going to or giving

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one symposium or another.

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And I was feeling
very left out, so I

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thought I would have
a symposium of my own.

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This one is in the
voices of Eve, Gabriel,

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the serpent, and Adam.

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And it's called "A
Symposium: Apples."

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"Eve.

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Remember a season of apples,
the Orchard full of them,

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my apron full of them.

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One day, we wandered from
tree to tree sharing a basket,

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feeling the weight of
apples increase between us.

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And how your muscles ripened
with all that lifting.

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I felt them round and hard
under my teeth; white and sweet

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the flesh of men and apples.

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Gabriel.

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Nameless in Eden,
the apple itself

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was innocent-- an
ordinary lunchpail fruit.

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Still it reddened for
the way it was used.

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Afterward, the apple
chose for itself

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names untrusting on the tongue--

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stayman, gravenstein,
northern spy.

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The serpent.

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Ordinary, innocent yes.

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But deep in each center of
whiteness one dark star.

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Adam.

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In the icebox, an apple
will keep for weeks.

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Then its skin wrinkles
up like the skin

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of the old man I have
become, from a single bite."

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