There Was A Serpent

There was a serpent and man did smite him by cutting him in half, however, the serpent refused to die and instead man now had two serpents to deal with, so man did devise a method to smash the two serpents into a million tiny little pieces which he did and then man had a million tiny little serpents to deal with until finally man decided to give up at which point the serpents died due to lack of attention.