And the earth was a bowl of primordial soup,
Which was thick and rich with the building blocks of life,
That is, organic compounds - complex molecules
containing carbon atoms, for so is our life.
And then the Goddess struck the primordial soup
with the divine spark. Perhaps it was as lightning
perhaps something else. But it was the spark of life.
In this way the Goddess created. Amoeba.
And then Amoeba begat Paramecium.
Paramecium begat Worm. Worm begat Eel.
And Eel begat Fish. And Fish begat Mudskipper.
Mudskipper begat Frog begat salamander.
And Frog and salamander crept onto the land.
And salamander grew up a gigantic size.
Small salamander begat lizard, and Giant
Salamander begat Dinosaur, who ruled earth.
And Lizard begat Rat. Meanwhile, plants too evolved.
Dinosaur ate giant ferns which covered the earth.
Ferns were gradually replaced by evergreens
and deciduous trees, which were then evolving.
Dinosaur could not eat pine needles or oak leaves,
And so it was that he gradually died off.
The Goddess was evolving higher forms of life.
And Rat begat Lemur. Lemur begat Monkey.
Monkey begat Chimpanzee. Chimp begat Ape-man.
The good angels in Heaven soon sensed his presence.
"We must win Ape-man for Jehovah," they all said.
Their leader Michael decided to play the role
Of Jehovah, in order to save the Ape-man.
He appeared before an Ape-man and Ape-woman
as they awoke from sleep one African morning.
They also were just awakening from apehood
Into human consciousness. `I created you,"
Michael said. He told the man: "I made you from clay.
You shall be called Adam. I created woman
From a rib which I took from your side as you slept.
she shall be Eve. I am Jehovah. worship me.
Do not eat apples. They are taboo." And he left.
Venus/Lucifer was also aware of Man.
She sat in an apple tree, watching the sad scene
Between Michael and the new humans on the earth.
When he left, she said to them: "Why not eat apples?"
And so began the war between Darkness and Light.
--Zagreus Nebula
It happened like this: in the beginning,
The Goddess created the Cosmic Egg,
Which burst forth as many billions of stars.
Matter between the stars cooled and congealed,
Creating many billions of planets.
As these planets settled into orbits,
Some were too near to their star, some too far.
Some too hot to support life, some too cold.
Some had air and water; some did not.
Some could not support life of any kind.
Some produced life without air or water.
Various life forms filled the universe.
Some worlds evolved quickly - others - slowly.
In our small corner of the universe,
Life evolved slowly, but meanwhile near by,
On a planet around another star,
Life evolved quickly, to
And then to the state of pure energy.
This planet was given the name Heaven,
While its inhabitants were called angels.
The angels worshiped a mythical king,
The unreasonable god Jehovah,
Who punished his children capriciously
For small infractions.
One day an angel
Who was called Venus, or else Lucifer,
Because her energy burned most brightly,
Sat in meditation and discovered
The truth of the infinite great Goddess
,
She who had laid and hatched the Cosmic Egg.
Venus went about communicating
The truth of the infinite great Goddess
With all her fellow energy beings.
Many then sat down in meditation,
And discovered the truth of the Goddess
Within their own selves.
But as it turned out,
Most of the angels did not find this truth,
and so they remained true to Jehovah.
And so, Holy War broke out in Heaven.
Venus and her followers had to flee,
Being that they were the smaller party.
As they were beings of pure energy,
They were able to escape through the void
Of space, until they found a new planet,
A pleasant and warm world which they called Hell.
--Zagreus Nebula
The ape-men and women of the generation
Of Adam and Eve were emerging from apehood.
Men grunted. Women gathered vegetable food.
Once as Eve was gathering food with the women
Of the band, they came upon a few apple trees.
Wild apples were small and tart. "Do not gather them,"
Eve said. Jehovah has said that they are taboo."
The women passed on. Later that year a drought came.
Food was scarce. The children complained of their hunger.
The women began to gather the wild apples.
Once as Eve was walking alone through the forest,
The archangel Michael appeared to her and said:
"You have eaten the apple - the forbidden fruit,
which Jehovah Himself has said to be taboo.
You have brought original sin into the world.
Now the life of mankind will be miserable.
You will be wretched creatures, weak and prone to sin,
Until such time as Jehovah shall send to you
A savior, a superman, a God without fault,
To release you from your pathetic condition."
But man continued to develop. He used fire.
He took clay and shaped it into pots for cooking.
Men began to domesticate some animals.
Women began to grow vegetables in gardens.
Men helped develop gardening into farming.
Eve's eldest son Cain was one of the first farmers.
Her second son Abel was an early shepherd.
Once as Cain and Abel were walking through the woods,
Michael came to them in the form of Jehovah.
`I wish an offering from you both," he told them.
So the next morning. Cain returned to the same spot.
He built a fire, and began to cook a large pot
Of vegetable soup -- a nice minestrone.
After an hour, Abel appeared. leading a lamb.
When Jehovah appeared, Cain offered him some soup.
Jehovah kicked over the pot, and said to him:
"Your offering is not acceptable to me."
Abel, with a flint knife, slit the throat of the lamb.
Jehovah took the lamb, held it above his head,
And let the hot red blood gush down over his face.
"Oh Abel," Jehovah said, "you kno-o-ow what I like!"
One bright morning as Abel was tending his flock,
A hungry lion appeared, threatening his sheep.
Abel tried to fend him off with his shepherd's staff.
The lion attacked Abel, and tore him to shreds.
He dragged off a ewe for dinner. The flock scattered
Cain found Abel's body. Jehovah then appeared.
"What have you done to your brother Abel?" he asked.
"Nothing" said Cain. "Does not the sight of blood please you?"
Jehovah then appeared to the local people,
And told them that Cain had killed his brother Abel.
So Cain crossed the isthmus of Suez to Asia.
He joined a group of travelers heading eastward.
They eventually inhabited China.
-- Zagreus Nebula
There's looking glasses
And not looking glasses
Only Alice has seen the latter.
She peeked on through.
She squeaked on through,
But couldn't if she was fatter.
Once achieved
She saw the Queen
Who was definitely `mad at her',
"Off with her head!"
The playing card said.
Such was the royal patter.
"And the mirror is cracked,"
Hissed the Cheshire Cat.
"7 years of curses come after"
But the Rabbit, still late,
Helped Alice escape
And they climbed up the hole on a ladder.
Not l, not 6, not l0, but 12
Shaking the floorboards, shaking the shelves
As if the whole house was a big alarm clock
And `no sleep allowed' till the last bell stops...
Goodnight. sleep tight. Now it's time for bed.
I fluff up my pillow under my head.
The waiting is over the crisis is done.
Ah blissful slumber - till the clocks strike one!
Are you willing to begin your quest for poetry?
Then you'll find it rest assured,
Your soul, though a mite. will be your tutor.
The orangy setting evening sun
And the smell of cut grass. are common enough things
But when you SEE them they're glorious verse.
Sparrow is a Marxist and amateur paleontologist.
He or she lives in Shandaken (New York) in the
shadow of Mt. Wellpayet. Sparrow draws with a
pencil in a foot.
The cheapest anchor floats.
Incense climbs stairs-
It's always dark inside an egg.
...The culture of capitalism never stops until what's old and cherished is destroyed and replaced with more Blockbusters, McDonald's and Barnes & Nobles. The blight - the beautiful blight, is gonna be gone soon. I'll miss the old log star. The old Hop. Character is lost for shiny new things in this lame ass city. A city without soul- from LOSERS ARE COOL `zine #6 , Robert W. Howington.
CONCEPTUAL ART: sculpture with an attitude!
Halloween's version of the rocker's motto: "Hex, Blood, and Pox & Souls!"
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