Apple Tragedy
de Ted Hughes(2005)
1 min lectură
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So on the seventh day
The serpent rested.
God came up to him:
“I’ve invented a new game”, he said.
The sepent started up, surprised
At this interloper:
But God said: “You see this apple,
I sweeze it and look CIDER.”
The serpent had a good drink
And curled up into a question mark.
Adam drank and said “Be my God.”
Eve drank and opened her legs;
And called to the clockeyed serpent
And gave him a wild time.
God ran and told Adam
Who in a drunken rage tried to hang himself.
In the orchard
The serpent tried to explain, crying “stop!”
But drink was splitting his syllable
And Eve started screeching “Rape”, “Rape”
And stamping on his head.
Now, whenever the snake appears she screeches:
“Here it comes again. Help, oh, help!”
Then Adam smashes a chair on its head,
And god says: “I am well pleased”
And everything goes to hell.