20 February 2014

Canto 7

Don’t be duped —

Girl Guide Virgil was paid

to lead Dante tenderfoot

round the grades

of Malebolge —

the duo’s holier-than-Abel pride

plugs my gorge

particularly

in our modernest age

when all the mugs we see

are Popist-hypocrites

& prinked celebrities

spectator-sport publicists

& weather-casters

TV-pundits

nation-staters

drug-peddling scientists

Monsanto farmers

latter-day-haintists

the tail

of lawmaker-capitalists —

all hail

monsters, aka honest Geryon

good for annulling

bitter tongue

greased by rings of blooded victims

churchly spun.