All The Male Geniuses In The World Failed This One Poem by Gary Diamond

Most men don’t stand a chance against them.
Even our best scholars
and philosophers
and comedians
only had a handle on them,
they didn’t know where God
had hidden the guidebook
if there even was one.

I took some comfort in the fact
a two-thousand year old book
told me the first woman was made
from the rib of the first man
and that it was the first woman
who committed the first sin.
Then she got her husband in on it.

The way I saw it
it was telling us that from day one
women were good manipulators.
They were made from us and they knew us.

I was pretty sure that
even with more experience in that area
every time I tried to figure them out
I’d just end up with a big headache.

If Plato and Pythagoras couldn’t figure them out I was doomed.