JESTER
I suppose you would argue
from your position
of superiority
that it still counts
as camouflage
yet boots or jacket
forged from this skin
would hardly set the pace
in Milan
or Paris
too much commedia del arte
it would reek of
to flaunt
such “jester leather”
and yet, in our version
of this seminal tale, this
is, indeed the serpent’s livery
which I might hazard
an explanation, which being,
life pre-
lapsarian
bound to be at
this point quite immune
to selection, evolution
and need for decisive tactical
advantage
in the species survival race
yes
at this stage
dressed to jest
as jester
than ambush
as ambush predator
though theology may see
clear ambush here
this
trickster of tricksters
first stand-
up comedian
sidling up, telling a few jokes.
spinning a few yarns
getting
our first Mother, first
Father,
convulsed with laughter,
linguisticaly impressed, to
much
forget themselves
gorge themselves on fruit
whose prohibitedness was
and was to
remain forever, technically safe
and yet for so
many
completely banned,
its consumption unforgivable
worse than eating the fruit
it has always been claimed they did
that giving the knowledge
of good
and evil
this simply giving us
the, revelation of
our own
absurdity
paralleling, mirroring
the cosmos in its sense
that
there is only absurdity
all is absurdity
opening up our species
to the horrors of
comedy
and laughter itself.
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