Daily Poem: Not Like Dante ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Not Like Dante
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Not like Dante

discovering a commedia

upon the slopes of heaven

I would paint a different kind

of Paradiso

in which the people would be naked

as they always are

in scenes like that

because it is supposed to be

a painting of their souls

but there would be no anxious angels telling them

how heaven is

the perfect picture of

a monarchy

and there would be no fire burning

in the hellish holes below

in which I might have stepped

nor any altars in the sky except

fountains of imagination

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