"Forbidden Fruit"
By Steve Callahan
bite the apple,
live with sin
sweet sweet sin
the gentle trace
of demonic fingers down
your spine
slithering
whispering
groans of longing
of
needing
feeding
on your darkest desires
you crave
violence
and blood
and you will doom
humanity
when your
teeth sink
into that apple’s
flesh
Steve Callahan is a writer, a poet and a former Marine infantryman. Bursting with creative efforts, Steve runs a poetry site, podcast, and is heavily involved in PB Abbate. Steve’s writing covers his experiences in the Marines, his deployment to Helmand and the psychological peaks and valleys of an infantryman’s life. Follow him here.
Listen to our Podcast with Steve here.
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