Ecophagy

God was striding the heavens

when a snake emerged

from a bone black gap between the wet green grasses.

Six days passed and earth was

in the belly of the snake and the cosmos reduced

to a pile of newsprint.

And God tore his clothes and

made for himself a garment of lamentations but

snake, pitiless, scoffed him beneath the apple tree.

And the universe was void of life, except, of course,

for snake and

you

and me

(obviously).