Littering

As we journeyed further down into the world
I could only watch in horror as to what I saw.
These people, however, did seem fit for they're pain.

The screams tore through me like a rip-saw.
Even to say what I was witnessing would cause an eye-strain.
These sinners were buried under tons of garbage which somewhat resembled cole slaw.

The smell of the trash left an appalling odor that rattled the brain
Into making oneself regurgitate.
The sinners also got struck with shards of glass that left a maroon bloodstain.

The garbage was flung onto each until it would accumulate
Into a giant pile of trash
Until it was ready to relocate.

The piles were put on a conveyor belt about to be in a mash.
The blood ran thick on the rubber as the sinners
Made their way, no time to dash.

In front they can see a deep pit.
They don't know what's ahead.
They should have thrown out their trash instead.

On the conveyor belt to their doom
A pit full of sinners mixed with the trash
Decaying and rotting with the maggots.

They pile up with the smell rising and burning the eyes.
One by one the mounds fall in.
They stack still never reaching the top.

The maggots eat their skin and suck them dry.
The trash entering their wounds rot them inside.
Skulls and bones lay at the bottom.

Wallowing in filth these sinners get what they deserve.
Should've made sure the trash made it in the can.
The litterers laid there decaying away and no hope to ever get out of the pit.

This canto is about the litterers. They would go in the seventh level of hell, because they are expressing violence towards the environment. They aren't keeping it clean and basically hurting it. For their punishment each of the litterers are put on a conveyor belt buried under tons of trash. In the trash is broken glass which wounds the sinners and makes them bleed leaving a trail on the conveyor belt. They make their way to a pit where the trash keeps piling up but never seems to get to the top. Once in the pit the maggots will feast on the litterers skin and suck the blood out of them, while the trash makes it into the wounds and rots the body from the inside. Some litterers are already completely eaten and their skeletons lay at the bottom of the pile. Since they were hurting mother nature because they didn't properly dispose of their trash, the trash disposes of them.

Shayne Kamat, Period 6