Djelloul Marbrook

Signor Dante, would you consider expanding hell
to survivors going through our things, judging
our minutest habits? May I presume your answer
would be a special circle for judges of such matters?
When I consider the great authority of deceit
I wonder how many new circles you would draw
or would you say nothing’s changed except
the illusion of change, which grows deadlier?
Would you make a circle for the talking heads,
for the ideologues top-heavy with their poison isms?
Or is your work done and we have only to go back
and do what we’re most loathe to do: read?

—DM