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Welcome to Hell

An Alexandrine* That Refuses to Sing

By Patrick M. OhanaPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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Welcome to Hell
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Welcome to Hell piece of human bone and brainstem

Heaven never opened its doors save on the side

For every tree but no animal to abide

Since they are too easy to defeat and condemn

All of them, both meat eaters and plant consumers

Munching with relish olive lives and bloody bones

Only sparing a smorgasbord of seasick stones

Amid the rumours of a billion tumours

O Greek Goddess, I despise your male counterparts

Both from the West and the East, below and above

They do their best and worst to sell us all their love

Hiding it in parts and charts and those heartless arts

Hell is many a place on Earth and the red Moon

Heaven is a state of mindlessness with a spoon

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Sadness yields sad things although most of them happen to be real.

A mantinada* was never meant to be gloomy with zeal.

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* An alexandrine follows a 12-syllable-per-line scheme. A mantinada typically consists of a Cretan 15-syllable rhyming couplet (mantinades is the plural).

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Patrick M. Ohana

A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. All my stories (over 2,200 pieces) are/will be available on/via Shakespeare's Shoes.

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