Before I set the window in
I looked it over carefully
like Rome the site for Nero’s Funeral
the celestial dimension it would cover
or better that it would lay siege to...
as the Poets of Greece would have said
who had profound knowledge
of the ethos, the breeding
and the content of the Heavens.
But despite all my endeavors
I can tell you that the window from which
the World is usually observed
was set at exactly that place
where Dante Alighieri wanted to set
a very important chapter
in the Divine Comedy.
Until now
no explanation has been given
as to why the poet failed at this point.
Don’t forget, however, that that was less Divine
than Comedy...
that is a game between fools and idiots
who would remain hostage to the Earth
even if the World were to stride ahead under the most
extreme form of logic
because History in its entirety
and despite all the Roman expectations
has developed in this narrow and tiresome World
until even the long awaited appearance of the Archangels
would not be foreseen by a philosopher’s eye
or the despair of the miserable
that would place the three dimensions of the World
under the strict control of thought.
That is why I also now need
to conceive the Heavens in tragic figures
being certain that personae dressed in fog
will emerge from there
and will then exploit this disorder
in the relations between living and dead
and endeavor to touch me.
So you see...
I just told you that we don’t know
if we are dealing with Comedy or the Divine.
Because a long time has passed since Nero died
and even longer since he set Rome aflame.
Since then in the eyes of the World
the end of life is darkening
more than equal to the brilliance of the Sun...
Can we any longer speak of birth here?
Can we any longer speak of crowning here?
And the bitterness of Archangels kills...
And the Anger of Paradise swells...
I give you my word that I will put
Hell in good order.
Each day I will communicate with the dead
who keep their souls
with the first half of my Fate...
In the matter of Paradise
I don’t know what in the hell is going to happen.
And indeed I insist on the point of view
that Dante Alighieri
who was never a Roman
upon seeing this captivity
of bodies and spirits
and at the loftiest point
of Glory and Happiness
constructed an important chapter on Paradise
as if it were a branch of Hell
in order to strike fear in those mystified by Heathenism
right in the middle of Heaven.
This chapter was suppressed because it entered souls
during that Era when that Grand Law had just entered
the human mind the one that confirmed the absolute
centering of all Human Existence
around the Sun
and as everyone had been illuminated
by the prodigal Sun
they urged on the Imagination and the Sun
to take revenge for who know what angers
at Hell.
But the Sun shined and shined some more
ceaselessly, insistently...and only on the ground
as if it wanted to ask
could the symmetry of its own light
which then bathed the Florentine spring
possibly be due to the pulse
and the meaning of that Era?
Humanity continued to be excluded
from the decision for the colonization
of the three dimensions of the World
even though Dante was born
during a flourishing period.
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