I’d like to hit the lottery
pack my things and go
soft beaches-- calm lakes-- peaceful mountains
poetry books in a hot tub of eyelashes
drinking yesterday’s blood as youth for
turning-corner body
sweat lumped beneath giant coffee pot burning empty
dark muk
soaking up sticky jizm dripping fingers
sniff shit-made snuff
will the candles burn?
incense smells of swollen feet
smell of hospital
smell of dirty finger
smell of sin and envy and greed
sipping mouthwash on the mezzanine
of Mt. Rushmore
napalm anthrax AIDS genocide
oil’s big business
hunters killing for.....?
like vaginal dryness
or rotten teeth-- unreversing
craving-- sucking-- f***ing-- fearless.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e