Anne Sexton - Rats Live On No Evil Star lyrics

A palindrome seen on the side of a barn in Ireland After Adam broke his rib in two and ate it for supper, after Adam, from the waist up, an old mother, had begun to question the wonder Eve was brought forth. Eve came out of that rib like an angry bird. She came forth like a bird that got loose suddenly from its cage. Out of the cage came Eve, escaping, escaping. She was clothed in her skin like the sun and her ankles were not for sale. God looked out through his tunnel and was pleased. Adam sat like a lawyer and read the book of life. Only his eyes were alive. They did the work of a blast furnace. Only later did Adam and Eve go galloping, galloping into the apple. They made the noise of the moon-chew and let the juice fall down like tears. Because of this same apple Eve gave birth to the evilest of creatures with its bellyful of dirt and its hair seven inches long. It had two eyes full of poison and routine pointed teeth. Thus Eve gave birth. In this unnatural act she gave birth to a rat. It slid from her like a pearl. It was ugly, of course, but Eve did not know that and when it died before its time she placed its tiny body on that piece of kindergarten called STAR. Now all us cursed ones falling out after with our evil mouths and our worried eyes die before our time but do not go to some heaven, some hell but are put on the RAT'S STAR which is as wide as Asia and as happy as a barbershop quartet. We are put there beside the three thieves for the lowest of us all deserve to smile in eternity like a watermelon.