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Inferno

By heinzs

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I found myself standing in Dante's inferno, 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here', the flames silently licking at the black jagged rocks that are my soul. And there you stood, speaking my thoughts, thinking my words. All the while the flames, hot as ice and cold as the sun, licked pieces of our flesh and vaporized them until all that was left were our thoughts and our words, and they, too, became a singularity and vanished from 3-D space. All that remains is the rebirth and the blank canvas awaits the whim of our palette.Another one I'm bumping up to the top of my list. Written September 24th, 2001 © on Apr 21 2002 12:59 PM PST, Heinz Scheuenstuhl    0 • 10

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