Welcome to Hell
An Alexandrine* That Refuses to Sing
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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About the Creator
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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