THE DEATH OF ADAM

To Laurence Binyon(1869-1943)

Adam died.

One moment he was alive,

old and grizzled

and cursing the loss

of immortality,

the next moment

he was a carcass, dead

flesh laying in the sun,

his tongue sticking out

from a toothless mouth,

his eyes glazed over

in one last moment

of wonder, and

the last piss and

excrement of his bodily

existence entered

the dusty soil.

Adam was dead.

26.03.-03.04.2023

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