Inferno
Oh for God's sake you don't
Have idea number one about
Basketball or horse racing,
You could never navigate
Your way around a wine list
And the many childish books
You've been reading about
Hieroglyphics will never get
You through an actual papyrus.
When will you emerge from
Your eggshell and realize that
The universe doesn't revolve
Around you, for God's sake?
Oh dear God! God in heaven!.
Purgatorio
Oh for God's sake! Oh dear Lord
Have mercy! Dear God on high!
Good God! Good Lord! Oh God!
Oh for God's sake! Let us pray!
Have mercy, Lord! Oh my God!
Praise him for his beneficence!
Oh for God's sake! Oh Lord!
Sing praises of God's name!
Oh my dear Lord and Master!
Who is like unto the Lord God?
Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!
Oh for God's sake! Hallelujah!
Let us sing his praises! Oh God!
Hallelujah! Oh for the love of God!
Paradiso
I've been (is this the right word?)
An ignoramus. I revere Liszt but
Now I see his being irresistible
To a woman like Marie d'Agoult --
An exceptionally serious woman --
Derived from his own seriousness
Which, however, never expressed
Itself through anger or violence.
In recitals Liszt did sometimes
Physically wreck a piano and
In 1838 in Vienna he destroyed
Three pianos in one concert
But those pianos were in poor
Shape to begin with and Liszt's
Response was exasperation but
Not anger properly so-called.
Theophrastus (quoted by Seneca)
Proclaimed it impossible for
A good man to resist anger in
The presence of a bad man or
In evil circumstances but Seneca
Disagreed to the effect that
'Surely no one is more peaceful,
More free from passion, and
Less given over to hate than
A good man.' Consequently
Liszt was loved by women as
Was Berlioz also to an extent.
Amen. May it always be so.
"Today and at all times. Amen."
Posted by: David Lehman | July 09, 2021 at 03:40 PM
This is basically my philosophy of life (part II).
Posted by: Teresa Cady | July 11, 2021 at 12:16 AM