The Etrog in Eden

It’s possible the etrog was the fruit
which God told Adam not to eat while Edened.
He did, and therefore had to make himself  a suit,
by sinful citron-induced pleasures hedoned.

To the Tenth Commandment, “Do not covet,”
in Aramaic, etrog is alluding.
Its beauty – that’s the reason why we love it –
induces pleasures that are soul deluding.

Solomon’s Proverbs tell us beauty is a lie,
so wisdom is a better thing to choose.
While waving on Sukkot four species high
remember: pleasure can be bad for Jews.

Choose wisdom just like Solomon, although
you must read his Qohelet, book composed
to tell you it’s most vital that you know
that wisdom’s less great than perhaps you had supposed,

as, when consuming from the Tree of Knowledge
what had been recommended to them by a snake,
Eve-Adam learned, in Eden’s Ivy college,
sophomoronically making a huge mistake.

The word etrog, whose source may be like lots of things we buy, Chinese,
is linked  by the Aramaic word with which the Tenth Commandment begins
in Onkelos’s translation to lust, thus transnationally forbidding us to please
ourselves by being shaken by what is the basic cause of far too many sins.