damned fruit



humans are truly the cruelest
creatures on the earth-
after all, isn’t love the most
basic human emotion?
we will destroy ourselves and
it will be the most human
thing we could ever do.

    - we were damned long before she bit that apple



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Submitted by ghosti on January 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAXAX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 251
Words 55
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 1

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