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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Adem And Eve II" extends the origin sequence through the Greek wrestler, sun, music, Spanish lover, rib, lung, women, ash, whistle, cone, home-call, and both bibles.
The scan-checked text keeps the poem's odd syntax intact while removing OCR damage. Its Genesis material is recast through bodily exertion, erotic comparison, and the strange technology of calling someone home.
'Adem And Eve II' (source spelling) recasts the same origin material through a male, athletic body: 'The Greek wrestler will stand up / in the Sun,' 'from the guts of hes music' (sic), with a 'Spanish lover' echoing 'You know that place,, that rib.' Attraction comes 'from the cut in the lung, which is mostly / women after all,' and the speaker claims to have 'dared our god' - an inner burning 'to the split harded tham the log' that becomes ash. The strangest figure is technological-mythic: 'the first time man put a hole in a cone / to call him home,' a primitive whistle or horn, which loops back to the refrain that 'your dying one / is the beginning of both bibles.' The off spellings ('hes,' 'hum,' 'a women') are kept verbatim from the typescript.