The snake shows sinuosities,
Celebrates the sinister.
Signals salacious suggestions,
Shrouding stated sexualities
In slitherings sinusoidal,
A sustenance of strange satanic
Superiorities.

Apples are appreciated,
Alimentarily acceptable,
Always admired as
Acid or ambrosial
And, alternatively,
Anathema to aspirations
Accounting to
The Almighty.

Snakes and apples, no doubt,
Are odd in combination.
Especially when used to rout
Mankind’s inhabitation
Of his first idyllic spot.
Ah well, I suppose
This first religious blot
With all its consequential woes
Could have been inflicted
By a butterfly with a fig
To have Adam evicted.
Contrariwise, perhaps a pig
Would do to dump the blame
Onto. This then sad swine
To live in consequence in shame
For defying the Divine.
But now it’s snakes that we’re stuck with,
Viper, cobra, rattler, boa,
Slitherers we’ve no luck with.
No doubt all conserved by Noah,
Along with all the rest he’d grapple,
Bats and cats and natch, the apple.