If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.

(Genesis 4:23, 24)

Founding cities, slaying sons,
Cain’s descendants ran the guns.
Gangstas reigned, before the flood
Polygamy, hoochies, vengeance, blood…
Doubtful honor was defended;
Love waxed cold, revenge commended.
Lamech laid the lyrix down:
Bragging boasts from a violent clown;
Clueless at the coming deluge
Staking out his Cainite refuge
Before it all was swept away
In Noah’s long-awaited day.
Urban violence, thugs and beats,
Criminals clogging Enoch’s streets;
All the glory misbegotten:
Urban legends long forgotten.