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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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October 22, 1992
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ADAM.ASC
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I don't remember who sent us this hilarious file, but thanks.
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ADAM
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by Nicholas Biel
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On the third day I was dust, ordinary common dust
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like you see on a country road in a dry spell,
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nothing expected of me,
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me expecting nothing neither.
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On the sixth day he comes along and blows.
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"In my own image too", he says,
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like he was doing me a favor.
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Sometimes I think if he'd waited a million years
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by then I'd been tired maybe being dust
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but after only two, three days,
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what can you expect? I wasn't used to being dust
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and he goes and makes me into Man.
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He could see right away from the expression on my face
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I didn't like it so he's going to butter me up.
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He puts me in this garden only I don't butter.
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He brings me all the animals I should give them names--
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What do I know of names? "Call it something," he says,
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"anything you want," so I make names up--lion, tiger,
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elephant, giraffe--crazy but that's what he wants.
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I'm naming animals since 5 AM, in the evening I'm tired
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I go to bed early, in the morning I wake up,
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there she is sitting by a pool of water admiring herself.
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"Hello, Adam," she says, "I'm your mate, I'm Eve."
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"Pleased to meet you," I tell her and we shake hands.
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Actually I'm not pleased---from time immemorial nothing,
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now rush, rush, rush; two days ago I'm dust, yesterday
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all day I'm naming animals, today I got a mate already.
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Also I didn't like the way she looked at me
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or at herself in the water.
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Well, you know what happened, I don't have to tell you,
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there were all those fruit trees---she took a bite,
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I took a bite, the snake took a bite and quick like a flash--
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out of the garden.
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Now I'm not complaining; After all, it's his garden,
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he don't want nobody eating his apples, that's his business.
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What irritates me is the nerve of the guy.
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I didn't ask him to make me even dust;
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he could have left me nothing like I was before--
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and such a fuss for one lousy little apple
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not even ripe (there wasn't much time from Creation,
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it was still Spring), I didn't ask for Cain, for Abel,
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I didn't ask for nothing, but anything goes wrong,
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who's to blame?....Sodom, Gomorrah, Babel, Ararat...
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me or my kids catch it,....fire, flood, pillar of salt.
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"Be patient," Eve said, "a little understanding. Look,
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he made it was his idea, it breaks down, so he'll fix it."
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But I told him one day. "You're in too much of a hurry.
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In six days you make everything there is,
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you expect it to run smoothly? Something's always
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going to happen. If you'd a thought first,
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conceived a plan, consulted a specialist,
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you wouldn't have so much trouble all the time."
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But you can't tell him nothing. He knows it all.
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Like I say, he means well but he's a meddler and he's careless.
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He could have made that woman so she wouldn't bite no apple.
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All right, all right, so what's done is done,
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but all the same, he should have known better,
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or at least he could have blown on other dust.
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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