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to Eve

as I ride on the slow train to death surrounded

ignorant of their destination by people

as the wheel roll down the rails my attention

is attracted
by Billy who leans on his Bible

and curses Eve for having gotten us thrown out

Garden of Eden of the

I wonder alou~ and he overhears

why anyone should want to return to such

r fallow fields
as a sharecropper anyway

isn't Eve the Savior of ~an?

so he turns red in the face with veins bulging

out as he shouts
Blasphemer! You would dare deny my employer?

tince by now I've discarded my guise as

..'I reply rational man the compromiser

I don't deny him I refuse the chains he holds
Eve freed us from the shackles of immortality
and he is but a trusty who wants to lead us back
hearing this he decided it was time to call in

the reinforcements
and outstretching his arm closed his eyes and

began to intone
sell that roadmap to someone else
I say
I myself am trying to get to Hell

and I'll never Jl)a.kiet if I ~o11ow others

directions
"giving it hne last try he appeals to my

I hedonism and asks
why do you cling to the pain of your isolated

existence?
I offer you peace and a return to innocence
I refute

but peace Is only stagnation not comprehended
and what di~1ty 1s there 1n innocence?