FALL We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation
Like many melodramatic, depressed teenage writer-types, I went through a Sylvia Plath phase in my junior and senior years of high school. I wrote a lot of “deep” and “dark” poetry with tor-tured metaphors. (More on this topic when Jessica arrives at summer arts camp in SECOND HELPINGS.) When I realized it would be so Marcus to communicate with Jessica through poet-ry, I had plenty of my own terribly overwrought material for inspiration. I borrowed the “chaos called creation” line from a bit of juvenilia then really leaned in on the Adam and Eve theme. Marcus’s intent with this poem is to tempt Jessica into possibly having sex with him and I had fun channelling that horny energy. I guess FALL succeeds on that level because readers seem to be…um…really, really into it?
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