Dante’s Beachhead

By Roberto Lavidez

Dante descended

into infernal beachhead

peering into machinery

that dominates life

plummeting down

the pecking order

to the sound of

splashing fountains

created by the web

of connectedness

that knits together

intellectuals who

have thrown in

their lot with  

predators passing

wretched creatures

who prefer circuses

to freedom

accustomed to living

at subsistence level

every moment of

lived experience

reduced to a

commodified status

weighted down by

the shackles of

falsehood prevailing

in society

subjugated citizens

of conquered islands

by the final arbiter

of collective existence

who have fashioned

man from the clay

of real estate

everything human

seems suddenly

obliterated in a

scream of a

bygone era

an appendage to a

ubiquitous presence

of the absurd

©robertolavidez2012