Back when there was a hell, each deemed sufficient and inclusive for the occasion.
It’s easy, too distinguished and uniform now.
Once back in the day the fair-minded had complex appetites,
when pragma-morphism brainstormed over innocence —
never happened.
In the larger context there was no recidivism to fashion.
Dante nibbled fast, in very mumbled tones... under a huge, ampersand-shade of grace.
There was a terrific wine list — and that made for grace twists,
drinking perfusions, he had at strangers shedding their platform shoes.