Adam and Eve had a really hard time
like in those old blues songs.
The Forgotten Books of Eden give the details
of it as so. Adam crying. Eve being the strong one.
That's the way it is at the heart of it.
We end up the strong in lush, pregnant,
and frightening reality. See how the men
mostly die before us, or once the sex
ends we end up nurse maids. We betray
the men and they betray us with our
painted faces, secrets coiled up in a bottle.
Someone, an angel, I think, flung a threatening
snake away across the world to halt
his menacing Adam and Eve, The Forgotten Books
say. To have everything given to you,
a welfare system instituted by God, and
then to have it all taken away. Well, Eve
shouldn't have been so curious. She
brought hard times. Do not blame the earth for
we women and men bring hard times...
To be continued in my paddle-less boat
floating down a river. The poet is escaping
and does not wish to be found.
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