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And then an attempt to widen
the notion of the afterworld,

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to make a space that
is not officially made.

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It's called "Forever."

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No doubt, it's a
comfort to believe

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that the good, who are luckless
here, are lucky elsewhere.

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That their enemies here,
triumphant, later lose out.

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But even in Dante's
inspired version,

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the afterlife is too imbued
with notions of the eternal

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to be appropriate for time
bomb creatures like us.

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Yes, for the sake of
justice, the violent

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who get away with
murder on Earth

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deserve to suffer a heat more
fiery than the coals of rage

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that burned within them.

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The betrayers of
friends and patrons

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deserve a chill colder than
the ice in their arctic hearts.

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But won't their victims--

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the pillaged, and trampled,
and rolled to the wall--

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safe at last in the balmy
realm of the blessed,

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grow uneasy, eventually--

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assuming they still
remember the world

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they came from, the
world of limits--

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with the thought of their
oppressors in endless torment.

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Won't they decide a determinate
stay is long enough?

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It's not for us to object
if Abel throws down

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a rope at last to Cain, if
Jesus takes Judas by the hand.

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So hell, if
imagination wins out,

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ought to be slowly emptying.

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And then heaven as well,
as the Saints return

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to Earth to help
the sinners learn

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what damage they can undo,
if they give themselves

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to the effort, and what damage
they'll have to leave as is.

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