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"Genesis."

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"It was late, of course,
just the two of us

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still at the table working
on the second bottle of wine

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when you speculated that
maybe Eve came first

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and Adam began as a rib that
leaked out of her side one

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paradisal afternoon.

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Maybe, I remember saying,
because much was possible

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back then.

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And I mentioned the talking
snake and the giraffes

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looking up from the
Ark, their noses

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up in the thin
Old Testament air.

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'I like a man with a flexible
mind,' you said then,

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lifting your
candlelit glass to me.

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And I raised mine
to you and began

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to wonder what life would
be like as one of your ribs.

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To be with you all the time,
riding under your blouse

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and skin, caked under the
soft weight of your breasts.

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Your favorite rib, I'm
assuming, if you ever

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bother to stop and count them,
which is just what I did later

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that night after you fall asleep
and we were fitted tightly back

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to front, your long legs
against the length of mine,

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my fingers doing the crazy
counting that comes of love."

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[APPLAUSE]

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