That 50-year-old who “loved children” must be avoided,
they said.
He’d done it again and again but was never prosecuted,
the elders said.
But he had a biblical theory humming in his head,
I said.
When Adam started touching himself, it was decided,
he said,
To create Eve, and that’s the story never decoded,
as he said
To me when I was seven years old, sitting on his bed,
I said.
With his hand pressed on my thigh, but it never ascended,
I’ve always said.