Rant

I'm writing this on paper with an orange RIT Alumni Association pen. I like these pens. They have a friendly flow which tends to make my handwriting...

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Lucid dreams are a whole different subway system. In a lucid dream, the...

(Image: "Body Image" by Charlotte Astrid. Found on Flickr via Creative Commons, and used in accordance with Creative Commons Licence Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)) An exploration of modern perceptions of beauty - size of body compared with size of heart.

(Image from Wikimedia Commons - in public domain) One in a series of verses inspired by Dante's Inferno / The Divine Comedy , exploring modern-day issues in relation to the circles of Hell. The Eighth Circle has many sections, the third of which houses those who commit simony - buying and selling of holy offices. I found it hard to think of an exact modern parallel: the nearest thing I could think of were telemarketers and infomercial hosts who use and manipulate the faith and desperation of their "customers" to get them to buy fake products and false cures. Thus, this verse is set up as a satirical parody of such sales pitches. I have attempted to craft these in accordance with the terza rima scheme and iambic pentameter.