DAILY HELL
What was going on in the lives
of Hieronymus Bosch and Dante
Alghieri that they described their
daily life the way they did? Inferno!
My life: not a
golf course of horrors
like Bosch’s canvasses of naked
people jabbing people with spears and
gigantic knives cutting people in half.
Nor like a dark wood - in a midlife
crisis - like Dante’s journey through
an Inferno in the nine circles of hell,
navigating its hills and horrors.*
Daily hell? Of course there are everyday
problems like the crush and rush of
traffic jams - but there are also ice cream
cones on a hot summer night: Paradiso.
So Dante and Bosch - you’re a bit too much.
But Dante and Bosch - when I read your words
and look at your pictures, I’d have to admit,
I want heaven and to be far from hell. Amen.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2017
*"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita."
*"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita."
Dante [c. 1265-1321]
Great Nose
Dante listening to Dante
with his ear buds....
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