Tuesday, May 24, 2011

YUP, WE BUGGED HELL! NOT NICE, NOT NICE AT ALL!

The lords of Pandemonium, when at dinner
Have choice of every kind of deadly sinner.
Who knows what most delights their debased palate,
The bloody tyrant, or perverted prelate?

Said Satan seated at the nightly feast,
"I'll have the Bishop, Beelzy, you the Priest."
Beelzebub replied with face downcast,
"You get the heretic, I the pederast."

From Belial, "Think how Bodily Ressurection
"Will so enhance our great House of Correction.
The shrieking soul, with cringing flesh complete,
Basted, crisped, quivering on a piping plate."

5 comments:

Brian H. Gill said...

Oh-kay.

That's an interesting re-imagining of Dante's Divine Comedy - Inferno.

A little too reminiscent from the notorious 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' tradition in American culture - but that's a matter of taste.

Left-footer said...

Brian - thanks. Could you please give me a link to "'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' tradition in American culture"? I'm not familiar with it.

I can only imagine that that is what Hell is like. The verses themselves were a mere semi-humorous exercise, not an attempt to enrich theology.

Richard Collins said...

I only hope that you get these published one day - they are brilliant!

me said...

very good!

Left-footer said...

Richard and shadowlands - thank you for your kind comments, which are quite undeserved.

God bless!