HELL IS A PLACE ON EARTH

A downswing-then-uplift for the livers of a certain time, in the vein of Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth.”

O man, don’t miss this truth of birth:

Hell can be a place on Earth.

They say where there’s Hell, there’s loss of worth:

We’ve made Hell a place on Earth.

It’s like that Frenchman said:

Hell’s when head’s go dead,

And as the Romans showed:

Descent goes and goes.

Though as the English proved:

Heaven’s the self-improved.

And as those Romans showed:

Ascent’s self-imposed.

O man, don’t miss this truth of birth:

Heaven can be a place on Earth.

They say when there’s Heaven, there’s lots of worth:

We’ll make Heaven a place on Earth.

Mr. Martin is a 2016 graduate of UT-Austin still living in the Austin area.