[New-Poetry] Gioia's Nightmare

[Bob Grumman]

  Gioia's Nightmare
  July 19, 2007, 8:48 am 
  Posted by Robert P. Imbelli 
  In today's Wall Street Journal, Dana Gioia reveals his nocturnal panic attack:

  I have a recurring nightmare. I am in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel. I look up at Michelangelo's incomparable fresco of the "Creation of Man." I see God stretching out his arm to touch the reclining Adam's finger. And then I notice in the other hand Adam is holding a Diet Pepsi.

  Did Our Sage explain why what Adam was reaching for was not inferior to what he already had?

  --Bob
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