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Michaeldavitt — Eve of Destruction

Published: 2012-07-16 19:33:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 128; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 2
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Description A Childish Prank


Man's and woman's bodies lay without souls,
Dully gaping, foolishly staring, inert
On the flowers of Eden.
God pondered.

The problem was so great, it dragged him asleep.

Crow laughed.
He bit the Worm, God's only son,
Into two writhing halves.

He stuffed into man the tail half
With the wounded end hanging out.

He stuffed the head half headfirst into woman
And it crept in deeper and up
To peer out through her eyes
Calling it's tail-half to join up quickly, quickly
Because O it was painful.

Man awoke being dragged across the grass.
Woman awoke to see him coming.
Neither knew what had happened.

God went on sleeping.

Crow went on laughing.

~ Ted Hughes
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Comments: 3

catch---22 [2012-07-16 20:41:07 +0000 UTC]

I'm with the crow on this one.

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Michaeldavitt In reply to catch---22 [2012-07-16 21:40:35 +0000 UTC]

You're always crowing

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catch---22 In reply to Michaeldavitt [2012-07-16 23:02:58 +0000 UTC]

alol, touche'

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