DD 3/23/04 EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS BY JUDITH WRIGHT

Excerpt from the poem "Eve to her Daughters," by the Australian poet Judith Wright:
....But you are my daughters, you inherit your own faults of character;
....Faults of character have their own logic
and it always works out.
I observed this with Abel and Cain.
Perhaps the whole elaborate fable
right from the beginning
is meant to demonstrate this: perhaps it's the whole secret.
Perhaps nothing exists but our faults?
At least they can be demonstrated.
But it's useless to make
such a suggestion to Adam.
He has turned himself into God,
who is faultless, and doesn't exist.