Adam was my ball-and-chain,
A tall short mule,
A walking red olay tennis court
In Eden’s judgment pool.
He tore the dubious petticoat
From Eve’s sequestered hips,
Oh, Adam was my elephant
Upon the sea in ships.
From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Ballad_of_Insanity
Date: 1928
By: Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936)
From Troubles of The World 
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