How To Write An Avant-Garde Poem

write in lowercase
about something obscure
like a flat-footed comet
dancing on an hourglass
then throw in a stray comma ,
or one close by,
before splitting the next line
with a big gap
or put the important word (in parenthesis)
or SwiTCh between loWERcAse
ANd cApiTAls
with no discernible pattern
then
once the reader
is thoroughly confused
write it
out as
if the poem
is ping-ponging
down a
chimney towards
an overdue
and
pretentious
death