5/10/06 Poem by dan hightower

Springing from the epochal abyss of entropy I caught the aught of the kinetic epithet racing toward a systematic decline of scourges, the sagacious implications permeating the delineated lines of reverse tyme fraudulent and opaque, delinquent and sinewy with a film of regurgitated joy spread thin like third world icing on cakes celebrating someone’s inability to embrace abstemiousness… sanctimonious and parsimonious the omnivorous candy-gram recipient fires blankly into the abdominal walls of a peaceful existence now thrashed like a caught wave to a 1970s bleached hair prototype, like a purloined letter to a felicitous melee, a harangue in the guise of fisticuffs, conundrum formed like iced capitulating eunuchs ingesting the forced attrition, cremaster no longer having a balance to withhold, no rising reason to contract, no ecclesiastical detonator’s in my bag today but I know you carry the football like a handkerchief for a child hidden from the feral children because of an intricate demeanor imploring the Anglican lashing and laughing as the anglicized versions of virgins with aversions to anything verbalized are verdant in their veranda’s vying for voluminous vaccinations, called inoculations by the overly indulged, oscillating in the off and on shadow of thrown 60 watt through a tempest of wooden repose, a whirligig of sorts, sorting the whirls with gigs and the gigawatts with grander wattage until the watson’s of yesterbook eat the organic mornings of azure forgeries in the guise of beleaguered broach collector’s in search of an event to justify the morning of our discontent…