Corrupted Eden

I shouldn't put a disclaimer here - or shouldn't feel like I need to, but for some reason I do - just because some regular readers of my blog might be offended by what follows ... I personally like the poem and consider it one of my better ones (as if that means anything). It was influenced by the darkness in one of my favorite poets: Gregory Corso. This was written as I was detaching my mind/body/soul from the tentacles of Christianity. This was written almost 11 years ago, which was 8 years after I officially said goodbye to my born-again self (I still speak in tongues - use it to meditate every now and then). So, as an ode to Mr. Corso, as if I could even come close to his brilliance; as an ode to my old self; as an ode to the Christian God I knew in high school or just as an ode ... enjoy the vileness of my twisted

Corrupted Eden

Eve was the true evil of man's existence
her and that god-damned apple
how dare that Medusa give into her serpent - that hermaphrodite
who the fuck does she think she is
determining mankind's fate - that bitch

what if only man was left in Eden
would paradise become God's bathhouse?
        Adam kneeling to taste the salty wine
        Jesus masturbating his serpent behind the apple tree
        Eve "voyeuring" her first rape while
        God ignores Adam's screams

it's no wonder our pillaged faith isn't immaculate

Eve - that superficial bitch - shamelessly weeps at her inadequacies
bites her wormed-apple (in a snow-white world it would be her last)
reaches for a fig leaf to cover her nakedness and
wonders why the fuck it's not all about her

Adam - painfully gay - licks the salty wine from his lips
ignores the weeping bitch
grabs a fig leaf to clot his bleeding sphincter and
invites Daddy to born him again

All this frolic in corrupted Eden
brings atheistic thoughts and
warrants crucifixion of that god-damned bitch

8 May 97
dsl