Asylum Seekers in Heaven, Mephisto and Pheles: A satirical novel by Voyen Koreis, about good and evil, love, poetry, computer game addiction, time-travel to 16th century, Doctor Faust, magical evocation, Viagra, mobile phones, Hell's Customer Service, political correctness in Heaven and in Hell...

Give those Immortals who’ve become swollen

With pride, the benefit of the doubt,

‘Twas through their doings that they have fallen,

This is what their sojourn was e’er about.

Yearnings of going back to their own sphere,

Within themselves intensely they’ve carried,

Ad infinitum bound to interfere,

In human affairs for’er stay buried.

Tho’ longing for their abode o’er cloud nine,

Anacamptic sound of harps in their hearts,

They can’t evade it, but must lay supine,

Unable to outsmart the Cupid’s darts.

Knowing not what picking up this cherry

Entails, they moan: Enjoy life, be merry!

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