1. Eve<br />It was me, they said<br />Brought down the lot<br />On them and them and me<br />I bit the apple, I was weak<br />The serpent got me, I couldn’t stand<br />Its hiss its smirk its dripping teeth<br />By God, I was hungry. Not even meat.<br />But the thing they didn’t tell you see<br />I climbed the tree up on his back<br />Stood on his shoulders, and<br />Fed him first. He never said no<br />He wanted more. That chimp<br />He took me for a right monkey’s<br />Blamed me, blamed him anyone but<br />Damn men; won’t ask for directions<br />Their pride not even for heaven<br />I’m stuck; guilty by association<br />Isn’t that what they always say?<br />Stand by your man, no matter what<br />Stick that; I said but<br />Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.<br />Chance and fate conspired<br />They threw my lot in with him<br />Slandered me: ‘original sin’.<br />Always get the blame we do, us women<br />Our home got repossessed<br />The clouds and manna, our Sunday’s best<br />Goodbye Gabriel and hello earth<br /> A blue and green ball of land and torment<br />Hell in the core with seas on top<br />An enigma. A city that God forgot.<br />Where Helen of Troy ruled the place<br />As poor Trojans fought over her pretty face<br />There they kept pets of a thousand snakes<br />Ten times that tree and higher the stakes<br />‘Hell is empty – and all the devils are here’.<br />The worst is yet to come, I fear.<br />Prometheus stole us fire and taught us<br />Our ways, but Adam still expected me<br />To cook. I showed him the door and told him<br />To toil as the Good Lord said he should<br />Dionysus gave us a first taste of intoxication<br />My mistake, one slip and next thing<br />I knew I was pregnant<br />Maybe this was God’s plan, but not mine<br />Not A, nor B, I was not inclined<br />And there we have it. The human race.<br />Here we are. God’s biggest mistake.<br />