To counteract that, we'll have a little paradise, sort of.
This is called "Paradise-Un," and it has an epigraph from
Kevin Jackson in his book Invisible Forms.
One of the early outline drafts of the poem "Paradise Lost"
suggests that Milton was considering
the alternative title, "Adam unparadiz'd,"
which pleases me that Milton could
have thought that would fly.
"Paradise-Un."
In the beginning, God unaccompanied and unmanned,
made light.
Adam, as yet, unimagined.
Then the world unwound from heaven.
The day unbuttoned from the night.
The sea unearthed, and the Earth unfastened.
The grass and the trees unhusked their seeds.
Adam unhastened.
God created he, him, Adam unfallen,
unpinned from the ground, unhitched Adam.
Adam, unbound, and in order that Eve could uncage,
Adam unribbed.
And both undressed and were unashamed.
But the serpent more subtle unheard from until now,
unlocked and unappled Eve and Adam unabled.
Then the unthorned got thorns and the unthistled, thistles.
The Earth untoiled until then.
Adam unparadized, a song not unsung of life's uneasying
and Adam undone.