BACK TO BABYLON [Or The Ancient History of the Wotsits]

Here we are facing Iraq and bombs and war While I am wondering how to get a cheap burial Perhaps I’ll get buried in Babylon Maybe in a few weeks time, burial there might be free. Will they bomb the Sumerian temple? Will they destroy the traces of Nimrod? There lie the clues to our Biblical origins Was Nimrod Noah’s great grandson? Better known to some as Gilgamesh The chronicler of the flood Suppose Enki was really Adam There’s one more connection still Nimrod’s concubine may be A variant of Eve or Lilith Or Nin-ti, the Sumerian rib-goddess

Holding all the stories of creation in my head Makes me muddled…Instead Enkidu becomes Yankee Doodle The head of the cavalry on the frontier Ready to advance on the King of Iraq In a paradise poo of French flak Whoops I forgot the L And yet not all the stories are one Even if people say we are crazy They thought Jesus was mad But it is the madness of the sane We have to continue searching We’re in good company Maybe we’ll see the roots of all faith Lying buried in Babylon with odd bodies like me. (c) C Y

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