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April 5, 2025
Because of Netanyahu, I believe in Hell (again)
By Gary Lindorff
But back to you, Netanyahu - / You single-handedly made of me / A reborn believer in Hell, in my 70s!
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What a power you represent in me
Netanyahu!
I who, when I was little,
Impressionable, gullible and often doing
What was wrong and punishable,
Harbored an unshakeable belief in Hell
Because I was convinced
(Thanks to Sunday School)
That I was going there.
At 10 or so I started having my doubts
That Hell was real.
And then for 60 years,
My love of Dante notwithstanding,
I did not believe in Hell at all,
But rather in reincarnation
Because of a vision I had at 19.
(But that is neither here nor there.)
The Bardo is where lost souls
While away eternity
Until they figure things out,
And that is punishment enough for anyone.
Well, almost anyone.
(I wasn't quite sure what to do with Hilter
And Truman [for blowing up two cities
Just to test two bombs].
But those two freakshows
Were from another era
So I managed to not fixate
On their damnable lives.)
But back to you, Netanyahu --
You single-handedly made of me
A reborn believer in Hell, in my 70s!
But don't worry little ones!
Hell is not for you,
And that goes for anyone reading this.
You think you know what darkness is?
The darkness in that man's soul
Would make any other darkness bright.
I promise, there is nothing you can do
That is bad enough for you to go to Hell.
Hell is a nasty high security prison
A few abysses below the Bardo
Where hopelessly broken souls
Go if they have done terrible things
To humanity without remrse.
They are sent there
So they will not be wondering around
In the netherworld messing with the living.
I don't have any information
As to who will be there besides him.
I only know that that is where he is heading.
I need that for hiM
So I can ease up
On my bitter loathing for him.
Let the universe take care of him!
Just get him out of circulation
The moment he breathes his last,(Article changed on Apr 05, 2025 at 6:47 PM EDT)
Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.
He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.