On account of traveling in Mexico, I’ll be offering re-runs for the next two weeks.
Adam and Eve and the kids debuted 2 years ago, on March 3, 2022. I performed it for Megacorazon, the celebration of poetry that Urban 15 sponsors each April. Here it is again.
So, there was a girl and a boy. Their names were Adam and Eve. They fell in love and got into a relationship. They wanted to have kids and start a new world.
Of course they didn’t know what they were doing and ran into a lot of problems because it was their first time. Having a family and starting a new world and all.
They tried to discipline their kids but they were wild. One wanted to start a nation and another one wanted to start a war against the nation. Always upping each other.
Even though they were living in a place with lots of food, almost like a garden, a garden of Eve, they felt there wasn’t enough. Or they felt like there might not be enough if something happened. Something bad like angry gods or monsters.
So slowly, instead of tending the garden of Eve, their mother, they got focused on worrying about what would happen if . . . And of course once you start worrying about what will happen if, then there is no end to the ifs. And soon enough the people forgot about their beautiful forest, er I mean garden, and started building weapons and drawing boundaries in the sand and dividing themselves based on superficial facial features.
Adam and Eve were old by then and they had about had it with kids anyways so they decided, screw it. We’re just going to live by the spring at the middle of the garden and let the kids have the rest of it - they said to each other and nodded in unison. And that’s what they did.
They built a little house of mud and wattle and whatever they could find and in the little house, more of a hut really, they built a little fire and in the fire they put to cook on some rocks that they found lying around six little tortillas made from corn that they had grown outside their little hut next to the spring.
And then the kids divided up the whole world. They spread out and took over the land and divided it up according to whatever they felt was right.
Of course whatever they felt was right according to one nation felt not so right to another nation so they had a war. This is what they had learned since they left the garden, er forest, to divide it up and then fight over it. It was a tradition.
Meanwhile, back at the old homestead, Adam and Eve were still alive. They didn’t die. They never died. They’re still there actually. Adam and Eve are still there at the center of their mythical garden, still making corn tortillas from the corn they grow by the springs.
Still living in their little hut of mud and wattle. Still listening to the quietness, to the sounds of the birds. Listening for any sign that their children might be coming back home.
music • Alyas - Daydream 01:04:25
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