Last Exit Garden of Eden

The sign on the motorway said
Last Exit Garden of Eden

She´d been in her car all day
heading for Paradise and she was
really, really tired.

In fact she was so tired
she missed the sign that read

Last Exit Garden of Eden

and drove straight past it.

They found her the next day.

To be more precise
they found
what was left of her
in the smashed up car.

And they also found
- most astonishing -
on the passenger seat

a grinning serpent.