Poem: Adam and Eve

[tugger]

ADAM AND EVE

As I make breakfast -- cereal and toast,
My vitamins having already been taken
Like a sacrament to good health,
I think of Adam and Eve
Alone together in that wonderful greenness
And did they love each other?

Romping in perfect paradise, free from all sin
Adam couldn’t have felt loneliness.
So why was it not good for him to be alone?
The animals, newly named, looking on,
Their eyes wide and fresh, wondering
Just what’s the problem with the Adam creature?

He awakes to find her shiny new beside him.
Just like the girl that married dear ol’ dad?
Strange new parts beckoning, what to do?
But the Voice whispers sex into Adams virgin ear
As she presses her loaded lips against his.
He thinks he might get used to this.

Afterwards, sauntering in paradise, Eve is celebrity central.
She lands at number three with a bullet
And all the creatures line up just to get a glimpse.
She begins a whirlwind tour of the entire Garden.
She pulls Adam along for the ride.

She’s so big, she has to take on an agent,
Some smooth-talking slimy serpent
That says he’ll take ten percent, but secretly wants it all.
He tosses her a golden apple and smirks
“Eat this and you’ll know who your mother is.”

But it’s a bald-faced lie.

Eve sinks into the usual celebrity guilt trip.
I don’t deserve this, she moans.
She begins wearing clothes to cover the scars.
She’s a shadow of her former self.
Adam watches in horror at her terrible turn
And soon he begins to feel a beautiful hurt for her.

He gets her checked into rehab
Where the Voice makes her sweep up all the time.
There, she makes friends with a shady gorilla
She sees hersef in his eyes.
So they escape and run off into the desert together
Leaving the fallen paradise of home far behind.

-- tugger

 

[Ashlea]

Interesting take on the whole business. I was with you right until the last stanza, felt it was too much of an anachronism, just didn't work for me.

For another interesting take on Adam and Eve, look up the diaries that Mark Twain did. Funny, funny subversive stuff. I'm sure that, being from Missouri, you can't have too much trouble digging up some obscure Mark Twain .

 

[tugger]

For another interesting take on Adam and Eve, look up the diaries that Mark Twain did. Funny, funny subversive stuff. I'm sure that, being from Missouri, you can't have too much trouble digging up some obscure Mark Twain .

Actually I have read Twain's book. You're right that it's hard to grow up in Missouri without being thoroughly indoctrinated in all things Twain. Fortunately for me, I do like a lot of his stuff. He was quite an interesting man who lived quite the life as well.

Thanks for your comments about the poem. I pretty much backed myself into a corner and wasn't quite sure how to end it. I just knew it needed to freakin' END!