Status: Ongoing

So, Dante is telling the Truth

CIRCLE II: Quezon Avenue

As my master pushed me down to the hole,
I was warped to the realm full of careless
and erotics. There they whirled at the stable’s stripper pole.

Minos: You come again to my realm, and brought a mortal?
Thou shall not pass again!
You cannot go beyond that portal.

My master forcefully said, ”STAND DOWN!”
For this is not your business demon.
“This is the messiah’s request, beholder of the thorned crown!”

Minos: “The mighty one here rejected your savior.
My mind has been set,
no more divine favor.”

“STAND DOWN!” San Miguel repeated.
“Thou shall bring them forth and guide him through these halls.
Before I strike you down and be defeated.”

Minos knelt at the feet of San Miguel
San Miguel: May God the Lord bless you Paolo.
He disappeared and filled light into the realm.

Grotesque, peeled, and pale.
The carnals are weeping for eternity.
At the stripper’s pole they whirl and sail.

I recognized a friend and his lover,
Daryl and Kaye whirled and plunder.
Embarrased and disgrace they’ve gone further.

Dante then led the way into the portal.
But he paused for a second and said,
“This is the land of the glutton, where they’re mortared.”