Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Dante's Short Catechism


Where is Inferno?
      Hell if I know.

What is Purgatory?
      Just a good story.

Who goes to Paradise?
      Whosoever wins the roll-of-the-dice.



from my month of poems (National Poetry Month, April 2009)
posted to Read Write Poem: paradise
see also Paradise Lost 2.0



4 comments:

  1. Love the brevity and wisdom here.

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  2. amazing a friend of mine we were just talking abt this very book... she has yet to read paradise... it is a very, very good discussion over a few glasses of red wine... it is as if you were there discussing as well... yr comments fit well into ourz... love it!!!

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  3. Nice thoughts on the afterlife.

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