prebarbarian times

    eve set the food on the table

    adam rapidly stuffed his mouth

    and started to chew

    stopped only to patiently take

    his hair out of his mouth one strand at a time

    he squeezed his hair behind his ears

    then smoothly finished the meal afterwards

    they wrestled and rested in the bed

    adam's hair was clean

    eve sniffed his hair from the

    left to the right

    edge

    of the mattress

    patted herself on the

    few places

    less attended to by adam

    buried her face in his hair again

    telling herself

    i am a good cook





                       Wlodzimierz Holsztynski ©

                             1998-03-30