Explore "Wendell P. Bloyd" by Edgar Lee Masters on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
They first charged me with disorderly conduct, / There being no statute on blasphemy.
Later they locked me up as insane / Where I was beaten to death by a Catholic guard.
My offense was this:
I said God lied to Adam, and destined him / To lead the life of a fool, / Ignorant that there is evil in the world as well as good.
And when Adam outwitted God by eating the apple / And saw through the lie, / God drove him out of Eden to keep him from taking / The fruit of immortal life.
For Christ's sake, you sensible people, / Here's what God Himself says about it in the book of Genesis:
"And the Lord God said, behold the man / Is become as one of us" (a little envy, you see), / "To know good and evil" (The all-is-good lie exposed):
"And now lest he put forth his hand and take / Also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever:
Therefore the Lord God sent Him forth from the garden of Eden."
(The reason I believe God crucified His Own Son / To get out of the wretched tangle is, because it sounds just like Him.)