IN A HOT TUB
Kevin P. Roddy
Two lithe lesbians and I, calm lovers,
Lay lesson to the way it once had been,
Floating in our common mother’s waters
Before the age of owning had set in.
Adam patriarchal, limply evil,
By telling lies, cast sleek Lilith home-
Wrecker, enemy of Eve his angel-
Weaver, dividing so he still could roam.
Rather in paradise the love of kind
Someday will transcend simple greed and lust,
Providing parturition from the mind:
A generation clots, blood dampens dust,
Grows from fountains’ exhalations, through far
Astigmatic fogs, to splotches of stars.
