Junior Words, 75

A High School Teacher’s Final List

List #15: (i) concupiscence, (j) prelapsarian

Concupiscence was not a thing

When Eve and Adam ruled.

Their world—when prelapsarian—

Had not as yet been fooled.

You all remember that sad tale—

The apple tree, the snake?

And then all kinds of change arrived—

The earth began to quake.