Shattered

Of extended distended metaphors

and foolish pathetic fallacies

a bandwagon of shared-knowledge fantasies

and withering glittering generalities -

that a drunk oxymoron questioned,

rhetorically, in anaphoric verse:

"Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?"

And there came a sinister cosmic reply

ricocheting hyperbolically off the edges of the universe

in manic depressive laughter-laced prose:

"Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not?"

But at least it was free of the

terrifying, petrifying, de-carbonated, dehydrating

sound of silence.

And when the Fool had committed his

extra-vigilant folly

of seeking cosmic significance in

a grain of sand -

Infinity and Eternity cried out

in gut-wrenching camaraderie

in a crescendo of heart-wrecking agony

torn from the bleeding lips of a scattered soul:

"Take this simile and toss it

For it is shattered and cannot be fixed!"