When Euclid set out to measure Hades. By Harry Martinson 

When Euclid started out to measure Hades 

He found it had neither depth nor height. 

Demons flatter than stingrays 

Swept above the plains of death. 

There were only waves, no hills, 

no chasms or valleys. 

Only lines, parallel happenings, angles lying prone. 

Demons shot along like elliptical plates: 

They covered an endless field in Hades as though with moving dragon scales 

Victims of flat evil, 

With no comfort from a high place 

Or support from a low place. 

Burial mounds are flattened by forgetfulness. 

By Harry Martinson