Eve eats an apple (malum in Latin),
fruit that’s forbidden, knows good and evil
(bonum and malum), and things fall apart.
Apple and evil—malum and malum.
The whole damned story—temptation and fall,
the loss of the garden and time without end,
the introduction of death and taxes,
fear of snakes, labour in childbirth,
sibling rivalry, brother hate,
fratricide—the fault of the apple.
All for the want of a simple taste
and the intimation of something great.