Justice Ameer

Adam ate an apple it got stuck in his throat and they called him Eve the progenitor the creator of all things the mother of strength and fortitude and sadness Adam ate an apple choked on it so hard a rib popped out of his chest and they called it Eve the progenitor the creator of all things the mother of strength and fortitude and sadness it takes the hacking of a body to make a woman Adam hacking up a piece of his body it was just a piece of fruit they called me fruit once too they called me fruity before they called me flaming before they called me faggot before they called me woman i thought i would have to hack this body into pieces woman, a name stuck in my throat right under the apple Adam tried to eat choked on it for years waited for my ribs to pop out my chest to explode for my Eve to be created from the fruit i couldn’t swallow they called me fruit once until they called me woman and then they just called me fruitless as if it took a womb to be progenitor creator mother of all things strength and fortitude and sadness they reckon God looked at the image of herself and called it Adam they still don’t call me woman they still don’t birth me Eve even though they cast me out my throat shrunken close with the fruit still stuck in it like Adam before they called him Eve and suddenly i am a stranger to Eden i am a stranger to this body as if it hadn’t always been mine i reckon God looked at the image of herself and called it me but i don’t know if that was before or after the apple before or after Adam choked which came first the progenitor or the mother the apple or the rib the strength or the sadness this body was God’s original creation but they called it sin they called it Adam I reckon God looked at the image of  herself and called Adam Eve after she choked on his name some fruit that bloomed in everyone else’s throat but she could never quite swallow the fall of man was an apple hacked up from a fruitless body a woman learning what evil was like a man forcing his name upon you the fall of man was a rib being torn from a chest and men calling that violence holy naming a woman based only on the body parts she’s made of the fall of man was the beginning of Eve Eve casting out Adam’s name Eve discovering who she was the progenitor the creator of all things the mother of strength and fortitude and sadness the fall of man was Eve becoming a woman with or without Eden’s approval and now every time someone tries to call her Adam tries to force the apple of his name down her throat she laughs she swallows she looks at God herself and she smiles