
Salvador Dali, “Divine Comedy, Inferno 23”. Source: affordableart101.com
Inferno
I awoke in a room in hell
not hot, not cold
alone, the only one here.
The devil Mediocre
stops by to explain
I can’t have visitors.
I feel no pain
no sun blistering
no torrential rain.
Hell is all things
in moderation.
Purgatorio
I awoke in Purgatory,
and, for a time, suffered,
more or less, the same story
as all the others
with poor taste,
worthlessly waiting
for the quitting whistle
which never blows.
Paradiso
I awoke in Heaven’s deep sleep
and fell
again to sea.