It’s easy to walk out of Hell. But there
Hell starts again. Another channel but
the same damned show. Hell’s what we are, not where.
It’s easy to walk out of Hell? To what?
To exactly nothing nowhere and unemployed.
The Anti-Hell’s not Heaven but the Void.
(John Anthony Ciardi)
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