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When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.

John Hollander
Ribs, Gone, Resentment
John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.