As a Starting Place

" As a Starting Place "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

for My Mom & My Papa
Mary-Ellen, Duffy
Erin & Ross
Sandy & Dan
Jack
Margot & Bill
Charlene & John
Rebecca & Russ
Kenny & Jimmy
Danielle, Mark & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Often to a Fault "

Often to a fault
in a potential windfall
as a quirk in the tax law
with drawbacks of exasperation
while puttering in a haze
of fading constraints
into the ostentatious
returning of favors
like lingerie
that goes without saying
as a starting place
greatly outnumbering paintings
in a constant deluge of polarizing faces
Legendarily intense, terrifyingly
oversized staged in unending dives
with indecipherable movie rights
No longer ungodly
in a silly costume
as an option
while leaping
off the pages
of self-identification
as a former curator
after battling a plague
with a blurb
as an explanation
of conflict or shame
centuries later
Collapsing
time and space
as a cross-legged
fall from grace
with intoxicating
scarification
and bristling
ostentation
as an outcrop
of conglomerates
besotted
by bygone
brachiopods
as fossils...

Giving Free Reign

" Giving Free Reign "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Well healed as site-
specific and always
riveting
with an acid tongue
and droll delivery
full of jokey
but largely
charm-free
preconceived
theater
like featured
premieres
of follies
with an underlying
high-minded
muddle
in the middle
of nothing
but the monotony
of a feckless freckle
accessed as imperfection
instead of adolescent innocence
Slyly reinvented, increasingly
smothering and bewilderingly belittling
Directly in the sweet
spot of an odyssey
as an emerging body
inadvertently
exposed to free uploads
acquiring their own potency
with blistering notes
in long-running shows
as a clown known
all over the globe
In empathy
with unknown
enemies
while settling
for an unmentionable
tragic mashup
with a rotating cast
Ambitiously staged as aging
giving free reign to fascination
and poetic observation
as opposed to naysayers
in semi-stages of pseudo-sacred
waxings and wanings of gansta strains

Like a Brand-New Motto

" Like a Brand-New Motto "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

A fearlessly original eye
unprepared for the honeyed
hostility and acidic pleasantries
of an old sweetheart
like a brand-new motto
long since forgotten
loudly and clearly
in a steady stream
of placid freedom
beautifully acted
and carefully adapted
to changing realities
as a subconscious scream
From pitiable to downright admirable
bidding farewell to tiny white lies
as unlikely reminders
for the population at large
Amid the big willingness to live
within a strict grid system
as hardly limited
like granitic culprits
of the familial
linked between misery
and authenticity
when pushed through a straw
slack-jawed during courtship
with soothing wooing
becoming brutish
with both dewiness
and ridicule as amusement
Posturing with an attitude
of sourness
with an edge of hysteria
and a steely sense of self
as tellingly cherish-able
when animated with wise-
cracking veracity
as completely pip-squeaky...

Calibrated Hocus-Pocus

" Calibrated Hocus-Pocus "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

If you missed the Grand Gala
while trying to catch the bare
necessities whizzing
by at high speed
past masterpieces
against flickering screens
of scenes of catastrophes
in smoking ruins of black bamboo
as a cartoonist of the venal and foolish
with the satiric draftsmanship
of a non-conformist
engendering a kaleidoscopic
agenda of a sceptic
like a former director
of, " Let's Get it Together! "
In new digs going, " Pfffft ! "
after waking up in sleepy streets
without rhyme or reason
in makeshift seats
devoted to regal thrones
navigating through space
in solos with the focus
of calibrated hocus-pocus
as ways to escape
the fast-paced by snaking
across baggage-ladened stages...

Loosely Branched

" Loosely Branched "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " It Needs to Be Repeated "

It needs to be
repeated deliberately
on a hand-held scale
in an expanse
from decades past
loosely branched
with downy hairs
pairing as aromatic
axils and bracts
overwintering
with purplish lips
tinged with anise
in pine barrens
steeped in pineapple
tea sprinkled with tansy
Spanning dense mats
along a central crease
of prominent pink
as a refreshing drink
with richly sweet
conical seeds
prickly, bristly
Seemingly endless
sculptural splendor
with a penchant for caresses
subtly and directly
mixed with blousy figures
difficult to grasp
as harrowing histories
handsomely cross-hatched
and profusely patterned
in a familial tapestry
of fraying strands...

Akin to a Polished Mirror

" Akin to a Polished Mirror "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Best Suits Her Nature "

Best suits her nature matching faces
with names as part of declarations
busily and consistently
akin to a polished mirror
sunset tinted at a high pitch
Yet prevailing as passively slack-jawed
like paint splatter whetted at random
on a horizontal arm trapped
where spectacles prevail
as stippled patches
of yellow and amber
in a canon
Lumpen yet shimmery
with opalescence
while slouching around
a sultry sculpture
ensnared by a prankster
with a parodistical grin
fixed in the 50's
First and last
like a rhinestoned
dumpster diver
with a thorny side
and lethal bite
exclusively
at night
ebonylike
predicated
on the sublime
as a reminder
of carefree
scrapbooked
lives
With more
than one
way to wear
a bath towel
unchallenged
forever on tap
as a pastel
palette
stretched out
then tightly
wound around
brash and brassy
as a bombastic
raised hand
notwithstanding
demonic clashes
and blaring fanfare...

Taking Over Overseeing

" Taking Over Overseeing "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Will Also Underscore "

Will also
underscore
taking over overseeing
interactive access
to lavender lilacs
and notions
of masculinity
both overdue
and a bit
behind the times
like a parade
of familiar names
along the way
as an extrapolation
of the seemingly tame
and unstraight risqué
Ripped from today
toppling over
a big bank
crouching over
a dead opponent
drawing
more crowds
with unseemly
immediacy
and authenticity
long since
eclipsed
by a staunch
supporter
in a small
audience
as best
of all
some-
times
point-
less
like
a
clothes-
horse
sewing
wild
oats
Marvelously
flexible
and full
of possibility
enough
to make
you dizzy
as a half-
dressed
odalisque
on the periphery
piled high
with frippery
and festooned
in striped
pantaloons
Plying
the overlap
between
the artificial
and the natural
with a butterfly catch
held tightly scratched
and incised scarifyingly
fighting for release
while nose diving
into a white
cube with holes
in its ceiling
and a finger-
nails-on-the-chalk-
board feeling...

Funnily Familiar

" Funnily Familiar "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Deadpan Smirk "

With a deadpan smirk
increasingly nerve-
rattling as sardonic gags
and antagonistic shtick
as a study in bliss
while still a bit gimpy
and deliberately oblivious
as if lost in a blizzard
after beginning to fizzle
with acidic witticisms
and head-spinning
verbal artillery
like scrolls
of poetry
in rococo
willed
into existence
nimbly
and exquisitely
as the funnily familiar
scene in high-rise buildings
defined by giant slides
corkscrewing confusedly
while ejecting viewers
for wearing birthday suits
still damp, stinging
and dazed, but grinning
after a wicked twist
with the privileged
devised as brilliant
when booked in overnights
bored, violated and cranky
like an emulation
of sensory deprivation
susceptible to strains
of mayhem in a meditative state
Meticulously painted
as an indication of gravitating
to the strange and pagan
as famously deranged
and eerily quiet
while silently reading,
" Keep to the Right " ...

Between Whirring Wings

" Between Whirring Wings "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
and Eric...

Into decline burdened by growing
needs
under staggering shields
yielding
to swelling ranks
of supposed saviors
thrown
into danger
as a huge
redo
in a frieze-
like wound
of youth
and beauty
In an appoint-
ment only
space
as a suite
of galleries
for buzzing
honey bees
being
packed up
in mobile
structures
squeezed
between whirring wings
laced with curry
and emptied of nectar
while taking
place in stages
of mono-
graphed installations
made
of stiffening clay
shaped
by haughty curators
in order
to forestall change
While exhibiting their
favorites
in anticipation
of re-installation
within tents
and under umbrellas
that keep coming up
as entitlements
renamed, "Untitled"
coinciding
with the unsigned
nearly three times the size
of unoccupied and preoccupied
like legislators on wavers
made to hallucinate
during a driving reign...

Diverse Inclinations

" Diverse Inclinations "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Could be a landmark
applied to people
like ultraviolet rays
with diverse inclinations
in a prestigious chamber
with sounds of nature
nonplussed by tumult
in funereal black
difficult to capture
as a panoply
of slippery facets
like oil on canvas
partially dismantled
in exasperation
Partly financial
folded and printed
with polka dots
on gouache
while wresting
and boxing
on a table top
for art lovers
of found objects
As absurdist
monuments
like punchy murals
dwarfed by buildings
with infectious buoyancy
along a corse boardwalk
with passing throngs
in worldly phenomenons
on concrete blocks
Affirming and reassuring
while engaging with the world
like converging sightlines
for really bog ideas
In an unbroken wave of adoration
as uncontainable vibrato
in the long-awaited
paying attention
to a sprawling creation
behind a ground-breaking
purple curtain in a tender duet
with a sift melody
ranging easily between affection
and arabesque
in retrospect on a dialectical
contemporary set forever and ever...

All for the Asking

" All for the Asking "

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "

At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining
essentially locked
in sterile delinquency
with troubling greetings
punctuated
by a dangling shard
of alarm as a problem
of subplots
in an anonymous
peer-review process
Not to be confused
as a curtain
raiser fairing
only
slightly better
than wishing
in vain
for a paper
airplane
to fly someday
over
the rainbow
with puns
and wordplay
showing
off anyway
that goes
without saying
all for the asking
in a bubble bath
Sure to emerge
visible
and palpable
with the feel
of gravel
as just
one more
habit
on a care-
fully
constructed
path
gradually
revealing
a view
of a square
gathering
momentum
in a romantic
landscape
of volcanic sand
and the hiss
of an aerosol can...

Heed the Need to Sightsee

" Heed the Need to Sightsee "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for My Mom, My Papa
Mary-Ellen, Duffy,
Erin, Ross, Daniel, Jack
Bill, Margot, Charlene, John
Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Cartwheeling as phosphorescent stars
in rumors first heard
to heed the need to sightsee
and eavesdrop
as a starlit harlot and starry-eyed artist
On a former loading dock
standing apart from the harsh
with Johnnie Walker
in acknowledgement
of a Grey Goose far removed
as a muse
super hard and deeply fearful
Leaning
over black granite
carefully
grandstanding
with excited
chatter
as a flapping
bat
being ravaged
at a newsstand
Under
close surveillance
on a yoke-
backed chair
carved
out of a single
block
of marble
as seen
on a blog
like
continuity
in a limited
series
of perfect
acquisitions
filling the gap
as a major absence
depicting importance
in water and chalk...

Flickering Contraptions

" Flickering Contraptions "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Performed on YouTube
as, " Clearly Over a Tidy Churn "

Clearly over
a tidy churn
with terse
drumming
and plenty
to work with
as layers
of artifice
and cross-
hatched
accents
to march
finding
traction
in flickering
contraptions
swelling
with rain
rooted
at center
stage
On a
woody
peg
naked
in cross
section
with scented
edges
silvery
when fresh
dense
and spire-
like
attaining
heights
widely
triangular
pyramidal
and lacy
with raised
scars
bracketed
and bent
backwards
blackened
with age
Borne
in pairs
wingless
cone bearing
silver haired
ovoid acorns
scaly cups
rough
pubescent
shrub
rusty
stubby
lustrous
southern
curled
under...

Becoming Big and Brawny

" Becoming Big and Brawny "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Kenny, Jimmy & Eric...

Shaping up as a target
for mismatched partners
in a fatalistic broody place
with baby blues trained
on a fixed horizon line
of mysterioso silence
with bleachy-white teeth
framed as if waking
with a gun-slinging stranger
from the information age
with spellchecked gestures and gaits updated in Super 8
like the culprits of aging
laying waste
to the super-accommodating
Flirting with allowing
as series of flower-powers
as interpretively superb
and dazzling, but risk averse
beginning in miniature
juxtaposed with lyrical gifts
surpisingly magical
with a tempestuous side
of deft fluidity freewheeling
as a supple balancing act
of feisty excitement capitalizing
on the extremely frightening
by sidestepping stereotypes
like sweet pliable themes
of pure technique
becoming big and brawny...

Redeeming Alchemy

" Redeeming Alchemy "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Anton, Florence, Mary-Ellen,
Duffy, Erin, Ross, Daniel, Jack,
Bill, Margot, Charlene, John,
Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy,
Mark, Danielle, & Eric...

In a hard-hitting senescence
of self-defense suspicious
of more or less
as larger and flatter
cells of arterial plaque
becoming overly active
and churning out
patchy malignancies
like relationships
between aging
and inflammation
fostering getting shorter
in self-styled hindsight
outshined by an imposing
atmosphere of fear
threaded together
with senses of dread
fed by a profusion
of grueling shoots
with lethal tubers
inducing wilted
pistillates
musky heads
and necrotic cells
then dropping
reams of fertile seeds
onto blackening fields
as vernal inevitability
following dormancy
with a redeeming alchemy...

A Miming Narrator

" A Miming Narrator "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Something of a One-Note "

Something of a one-note Bellwort
drooping at the end of a forking stem
discarding the stalkless leafy portions
as yellow bells dangling beneath
slender arching stems-berries red
Hearing ineffable echoes
soft and feathery as past and present
laments in threadlike torment
mixed with myth littered with prescriptives of the apocalyptic
In a straight-up impersonation
of a toppling stage
at the end of an unsustainable
rainbow for the unnamed
on opening day plagued
by power plays
becoming upstaged
by a miming narrator
with an amazingly
pliant spine
and a precise
choreography
of the eyes...

The Totally Natural

" The Totally Natural "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Becoming Funny
and Weird and Sloppy "

Becoming funny and weird and sloppy
when thrown for a loop
by mishandled duties
in narrow green rooms
of the totally natural
emptied out
as paradigms
of unhappiness
like fried ants
in disparate
fairy tales
as fractured
characters
in mismatched
casts
With the rhetorical tic
of vulgar kitsch
dismissed
with the fragility
of unscientific rigor
while leaping over limits
like a prestigious mistress
and pre-eminent critic
of pictorial brilliance
in multiple disciplines
of gambler, swindler
and alchemist
With spotty knowledge
prompted by the top-
most gossip
of an inexorable
prosecutor
in two parts
as an unorthodox
memoir
In spicy cuisine
sweetie
" Gosh Almighty! "
freely embracing
then running away
after a break up
with a jack-of-all-trades
then leaving the stage
along a fertile plain
of strap-shaped
stream beds
within the broad range
of late middle age
Assuming a deep groove
of allocution
dramatically patterned
in red and black
reduced to powder
when mixed
with pungent flowers
of musk mallow
And hiding out
in the otherwise
gaudy good times
as indecipherable
uninspired writings
like a riot
of inedible wild
loosestrife
Then all is right
in story lines
like fireweed
in showy spikes
replete
with sweet
buckeye...

In Counterpoint

" In Counterpoint "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Almost Upon Us "

Almost upon us
in a partners arms
all along
while peeling off
the not-so-sure
in a guided tour
of enormous glory
unperformed
before an audience
in counterpoint
whittled down
to a compelling account
of calamitous
snorts of scorn
first and foremost
with deniability of course
as the mission falters
with impecunious support
in the forefront
Sustained by a rum-laced cake
practically in one's face
taken way too far
like much of a flock
with little regard
for the precious metals
of a talisman
from everywhere else
endlessly summoning up
turbulent bravado
in moral documents
quickly pivoting
with the dismissiveness
of unlikely innocents
in microchips
Insular and prickly
top-to-bottom
as erect fronds
from stout rootstock
rich in starch
pounded into flour
as scaly nut-grass
scattered
and difficult
to gather
as cattails
and bracken
Like bureaucratic
black magic
loutish and tacky
with a cockney accent
as a geriatric alligator
peevish and snappy
with an enigmatic laugh
shielding against cancer
as a bizarre idiosyncratic charm
with a fiercely common big heart...

Tickled at the Thought

" Tickled at the Thought "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Propped Up
on a Harpsichord "

Propped up on a harpsichord
willfully transformed
by a trenchant voice
with a bit of tabloid force
pulling the whole score off course
in a series of wall pieces
hanging from a rectangular peg rack
as a penchant for the abstract
on a red-and-white banner
in the manner of a patchwork
twisting against black
in a vacant chapel
Narrow, ragged and masked
by a miasmic camphor
like taxidermied animals
stacked one upon another
in their favorite basking log
as a fête gallante
of contemporary art
with greatly enlarged heads
as early nesters
Like legendary Hellbenders
facing hordes of predators
almost nothing with scores
to settle with anyone else
like a code of silence
on a slimed fishing line
As miners panning for gold
along a remote riverside
forming nuggets from dust
in cuttlefish bones
Steeped in local lore
along twin falls
tickled at the thought
of being carved
from pink marble
then being mocked
as facsimiles
of the flotsam
like rubber duckies
gone amok
on virtually any subject
if not for nothing
as a font wonk
with interlocking
camaraderie...

Graciously Seen

" Graciously Seen "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " At the Nexus "

At the nexus
of adoring
the gawping
of a goofball
hoop-skirted
performance
in plain sight
all along
creaking
floorboards
as test runs
come stumbling
to an end
Envied
and imitated
as the critically
acclaimed
like throwaways
of the strangely
unsustainable
Absorbed
into the mainstream
by channeling
lipstick and cockiness
implicitly following
the love of artistry
with psycho-melodic sass
While hugging tightly
with mellifluous yelps
in falsetto headlong
behind closed doors
and coming across
as nothing short
Like all accordings
graciously seen
above the waste
to perform the sacred
as free-spirited
improvisation
in the upper ranges...

As Said Parts of Artistry

" As Said Parts of Artistry "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Trading Blame "

Trading blame
and bracing
for covert
saviors
speciously
revered
as ungodly
ruling bodies
not pretty
but still
unbeaten
On the big-
name A-list
after a brazen raid
on and off stage
without the restraints
of a plaything
Whizzing at high-speed
during a lifelong trip at sea
with the familiar sitcomish shtick
of nibbling on chips
like a cartoonish patrician
in response to a mêlange
of mixed feelings
from shredded egos
and swapped barbs
Rambling on
while name dropping
like blarney for a sexpot
with skeletal parts
under binoculars
irregardless
Commandingly
in charge
and hence
harmless
after cashing
a last heart
discarded
like a diamond
from the dummy
while running clubs
with a high trump
and declaring ruffs
as luxury loving
under discussion
Finding a comfort
in the early
incontrovertible
inertness
if someone
else's words
in a close-
mouthed world
Plotting
to rebuild
after bringing
down the house
without boundaries
like shooting stars
reenacted as blasts
with little chance
of ravaging impact
when slammed
into action
as an unprecedented
show of power
in a touchdown
Being coddled
above and beyond
with cultural prominence
like landmarks
as said parts of artistry
venturing onto an over-
handing branch
with am intimate scale
and carefree abandon...

Bundled Up in Popular Culture

" Bundled Up in Popular Culture "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Stylistically Divergent "

Stylistically divergent
urban and rural either
yellowish or purplish
tending to fix the bitter
in just over a minute
with wild ginger
Above ground
with solitary
flowers
of brown
supported
between stout
wooly stalks
bared in pairs
Bundled up
in popular
culture
trimmed
in fir
with hips
held
throughout
winter
in bristly
thickets
covered
with sticky
reddish
hairs
on sandy
pastures
Coarse
species
forming
dense
clumps
of con-
spicuously
wrinkled
leaves
large
deep
rose
to white
in survival
along dry
open
roadsides
Long
arching
grey-green
stout and downy
with unopened
flowers
lacking
milky sap
upland...

The Obvious as Impossible

" The Obvious as Impossible "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Longtime Confidant "

A longtime
confidant of probably not
following the normal standard
and demographics as blond
and bubbly especially
when saying dark things
triumphantly by setting up
punchlines like, " Um "
Then goosing the crowd
by shouting out, " Get Out! "
after a catty sigh
like longtime undying
bookings on, " Tonight "
Blissfully like a kind
of salad made famous
by Julia Child
while getting blubbery
from Monopoly money
As anonymous artisans
wearing conical
likenesses
carved
from bony objects
steeped in red
across a predatory
marital bed stretched
across a frenzied center
like cryogenic stealth
As a common result
early in its run
sometimes funny
sometimes suffering
coming to life at dusk
with an audible stillness
and a look of innocence
in a payola figure
Almost in its original form
seen by many many more
as a small comfort
excerpted from a longer version
with a close-up showing
a handful of loans
nailed in only two takes
late in middle age
Especially legendary
like a stupefying expression
spoken with a biting gesture
like a bug-eyed bonehead
resembling a walrus-tusked chessman
in a Medieval collection as no contest
Revelling in unfamiliar dimensions
with toothpicks and bits of string
glimpsing the unspecific
in an exhibition
scrapped
as a catalog
too daunting
to print given
the obvious
as impossible...

Around the Margins

" Around the Margins "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Some Essential Way "

In some essential way
endangered and underplayed
running off stage
posturing with self-conscious
intolerance
and wobbly sabotage
in a dodgy deal
Overstuffed and underedited
as a hardly fitting end
intermittently wasted
and content to hang
with a cagy mate
forlornly drained
and wiped out painfully
In a low-wattage drama
masked with algae
as flattened captives
serrated toward the back
like a familiar, " snapper "
in a flask-shaped cavity
Within a burgeoning ethos
of erotic freedom
burrowing with front feet
around the margins of ponds
bound with goldenrod
fringed prominently
with a pink calyx
sweetened to taste...

Granular Scales

" Granular Scales "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Acute and Ardent "

Acute and ardent
supposed
to have shown
a new-fanged
shrewdness
becoming
pretty sure
of grandeur
in an ordinary
world
by unfurling
under a curl
and turning
furiously
into a judge
and jury
for rulings
on innocence
and guilt
As overlapping
granular scales
with triangular
patches
some black
some blue
like cross bands
in glaringly arid
and semi-arid lands
with distinctly
creviced females
and blandly
barred males
Clearly marked
as clutches
in clump grass
in sunny
woodlands
and sandy flats
shy and wary
with splotches
and spots
between femoral
pores found foraging
in the morning
eyes paling in the damp...

During Transformation

" During Transformation "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Northern Temperate Zones "

Northern temperate zones
of sirens and moles
in distinct body regions
capped with packets of sperm
overlaying wide ranges
of jellylike eggs
lost during transformation
yelping when captured
and squirming vigorously
when handled
Nestling in winter
waiting for spring
in sheltering
cavities emitting
clicks after wrestling
in leaf litter threatened
by a red underbelly
and swelling vents
In defense
December
through May
cave dwelling
lined with fleshy
projections
on stream beds
of detritus
poorly known
as predacious
to incubating eggs
tipped with black
horny layers
Swept into the water
by heavy rains
bypassing
the tadpole stage
with yellowish flecks
over clear heads and necks
along with conspicuous
tympanums of warm, moist skin
hatching
directly as tail-wagging species
in swiftly flowing streams
Erupting
like bubbles in tar pits
of hardship
and foul-mouthed
grit given
heady physicality
like gliding
down
the inside
of an 80-foot wave
dilating
the entire time...

Lighter-Spirited Days

" Lighter Spirited Days "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " An Heir Apparent "

An heir apparent
abundant
in open scrub oak
easily burrowing
prominently knobby
with dark spots
and conspicuous
cranial crests
Filling in
the picture
by setting
aside
differences
of messy textures
and confused senses
trilling musically
in a temporary pool
of a seasonal monsoon
In the first two movements
principle and subsidiary
as the case with a penchant
for a frenzied tenth degree
when peppered with delicate
flecks snout-to-vent...

Not Far Behind

" Not Far Behind "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Featuring the Accomplished "

Featuring the accomplished
recent self-release
while spinning with tradition
as well as unexpected
twists and turns
of dramaturgical surgery
with the painstaking detail
of a noir gangster in drag
as a felon without question
Obsessively pressing
the fast-forward button
like a vibrating device
for tricking the mind
in front of each eye
stymying dilation
plus befuddling
the tongue
When tethered together
with momentum
while hanging our heads
as a final sign
of an opening line
of the likewise
not far behind
like the equivalent
of a sinister familiar
forced to draw
a single straw
and coming
up short...

Selectively Adapted

" Selectively Adapted "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Repurposed
Psych-Pop Hit "

A repurposed
psych-pop hit
with boho-chic
prowess stuffed
with marquee pop
as Scottish
post-rockers
pace the stage
under stark spots
and Potter nods
Continuing
to eschew
an angular
throwback
to giddy chic
densely howling
throughout
prog-pop
in small
ensembles
of post-bop
As burnt-
caramel
for alto-sax
like idio-
syncratic
fearless
sopranos
Like piano
for four-
hands
video-
enhanced
and
selectively
adapted
as a caplet
of neat
standards
Under
the auspices
of a rotating
set
for a vintage
quartet
performing
torturous songs
as encores
Along side
overlords
of overdue
support
as taste-
making
sharp
guitars
complete
with finger
pics
for double
strings
plucked
with
exemplary
urgency
as modern
post-pop
Bach...

Poignantly Pinpointing

" Poignantly Pinpointing "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Notably Stronger Last Week "

Notably stronger last week
after making gains
with unworldly sensations
and rakish perturbations
Playing flugelhorn
in a rippling waltz
poignantly pinpointing
teary pipe dreams
in low keys
while wooing goose-
bump producing
corkscrewing
Hurtling two stories
after falling backward
into sodden double entendres
packed with mea culpas
and manic hand-wringing
after lapping gin
out of a dog's dish
and prancing madly
at random or by accident...

Between Then and Now

" Between Then and Now "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle and Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " If This Cliché is Accurate "

If this cliché is accurate
as the most interesting character
with similarities between then and now
revisited by previously unique ideas
becoming humdrum
when borrowed from others
as burdensome feisty nuns
Featured as a new release
piece by piece with a ban on neither
harmonic catharsis
nor monophonic confessions
like retreaded laments
At least read as a script rewritten
like a premiere for a serious superhero
top grossing anonymously
as Shakespeare turned zombie...

Cradled with String

" Cradled with String "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Amid So Many "

Amid so many
lucky breaks
explained away
as parting waves
of heartache
like a mild
narcotic
with a likeness
to headlines
over the rest
of our lives
Staying
up late
as pain-
fully
long days
like
a range
of off stages
over
the decades
adjacent
to diluted
moods
of refusal
like a hula
Cradled with string
while balancing
alternatives
to pandering
as patchy pageantry
like copycats
of the drab
With a flourish
amid the rather
real-life gag
of untapped cat's
cradles being replaced
by flirtation cast
haplessly backward
and fizzling out
as juxtaposed solos
fated only to pose
at the opening salvo...

Familial Fragments

" Familial Fragments "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " All Got Together "

All got together
as an overamification
of familial fragments
in sturm and drang
As distinctive talents
featuring alien casts
in versions of glass
seen as mirrors
of the mercurial
let alone
as an opening
like a star
pitcher
with an honest
moniker
hardy begun
Heavily salinized
at high speed while flying
upside down and backwards
with an uncertain laugh
in a slam-bang tank
filled with a fistful of skin
and a vial or unidentifiable pills
Starting circling
while reading something
but coming up bloody
while tucked away in amongst
a jumpy pulse
still docked with an itchy trigger finger
Never released after lingering
with hit or miss as wistful listenings
like preludes to oral histories
in ancillary channels
pretty happily
Successes represented
as vocal chemistry
with a lettered
gentleman
from strains
of the almost famous
idealized like blinders...

Wizard-Seeking

" Wizard-Seeking "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Not Quite Farcical "

Not quite farcical
offering an over gloss
for a salsa and meringue cohort
as an impromptu put off for cast calls
at the complete annoyance
of purportedly loyal audiences
Not quite pulling off the tenacity
of a sometime thriller
imbued with youth in a biomusical
like a decisive timeline
for flinty survivors
with strong song styles
in working order as passions still
underwritten within an original script
Left uninvestigated since
a wizard-seeking
gimmicky deliverance
by a tatted wisecracking
masked man as the answer
to lonely wales
within a backstabbing
riot of spangles
And the beat goes on
as an uninterrupted thumping
of disruptive percussion
finding the courage to drum up
life's laments summed up
as punch drunk...

Under the Spell

" Under the Spell "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Must Be Done "

Must be done as much
as a thrashing man
and an overbearing female
fueling the jukebox
of an unsound heart
like a hit-packed
show stopper
retooled
by uprooted boomers
Trying really really hard
in belle canto stardom
on tele-charge
as innocuous, ungodly
and largely charm-free
buried underneath
reordering glee
Pioneering revivals
in the twilight
like a diva-sized
ego that never dies
after a haunting life
hiding
out otherwise
inside
indecipherable
overnights
Fallen
under the spell
of a hooch-swilling
bawdy talker
mixing
sordid torch songs
with little more
than overwrought
rotating casts
of amassed
farcical criminal
fragility clinched
with narcissistic
rigidity...

Gesture and Geometry

" Gesture and Geometry "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Off-Putting Starkness "

Off-putting starkness
of chattering objects
in high contrast
like giant tree slices
of self-conscious modesty
within earshot of a forest
Few and far in between
gesture and geometry
of the long-lost often
overlooked either
industrious or lucky
like flingers of zingy
lines outshined
by a gaudy good time
In a long song and dance
all about a cappella
as full potential
when collectively stepped
above all the rest
with the exception
of a wrenchingly placid set
After a crash landing
with a con man
in a failing cast
with spent passion
and avarice...

Longstanding

" Longstanding "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " There Is No Next "

There is no next
in undreamt attempts
to remember
after mulling over
being in the know
through voice overs
cobbled together
as odds and ends
conjuring hallways
clogged with tomorrows
In a dented wall
crumpled on the floor
in foot-long flute songs
in short, longstanding
as manuscripts
from the past
In a rant of gasping
thin air
in full-scale blaring
impairment
of future heirs
In formidable
stills
of maudlin mundanity
dating
from the old days
as blinking
sweeps
on a radar
screen
of incoming
blips
in nano
minutes...

Miniature Differences

" Miniature Differences "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Lauded by Critics "

Lauded by critics with a flicker
for anyone interested
in miniature differences
in wit as a state of weariness
without a trace of vagueness
between action and restraint
Shockingly clinical blighted
by road signs funneling light
toward matinee idols
in full flight with spikes
of sapphire scrutinized
by actual life on multiple sites
Guided by bona fides
from earlier times like strivings
in little bits brimming
with papier-mâché figures
as blissful walk-ins
Imagining similar skits
intermittently picturing
mounting multichannel
legacies unflinchingly
with cerulean skin
above suspicion
Like funkier
digital quips
slightly off-kilter
when joining
the ticket
with dissenting
opinions
appearing as free-
spirited mimics
invariably
with antipathy
and added
instability
Executed
in gridded
order all
for a cause
of enforced
symmetry
all according
to inordinate
laws dipped
in mortar
with a blurry
aura
Painted toylike
commensurate
with memory
and too
little evidence
while pondered
under stark
closely bobbed
locks
of harshness...

Many Subjects

" Many Subjects "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Seemingly Endless Run "

A seemingly endless run
accessorized by a turret
of unsubtleties from graffiti
to junk sculptures
of many subjects in big numbers
As a surveyish introduction
like a digital wunderkind
with an artifice of many riffs
intertwined with the divergent
free-style of desire as snippets
of possibilities in indigo
The most straightforward
sample clips of piano
with devotional
wrists and elbows
bending perilously
between printed sheets
of vintage depictions
of cataclysms
with certain tactility
Both weepy
and clear-eyed
with a sly
altertness
to the divine
typified
by acquired
states of mind
before
your very eyes
Anguished cries
of, " venal, ugly, weird "
as satiric cartoonish boobies
accompanied by looming brutes
rummaging through stupefying refuse
of unctuous love run asunder...

Flashbacks of Bedazzlement

" Flashbacks of Bedazzlement "

by Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ, Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle & Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Skin Art, Color Bomb "

Skin art, color bomb
with tatwax aftercare
to raise awareness
by wearing contacts
as upscale blackmail
in flashbacks of bedazzlement
Flipping out as swoon-worthy
tried and true fuzzbox funk
winding up as tweeted
niceties pillaging for freebies
Like a pick-pocketed wallet
beneath the big top
in a blockbuster rostrum
hailing hallowed marks
while slogging through gridlock
in a parking lot of hot prospects
Atop a bluff in an uncultivated way
dressed in black and carrying
a walkie-talkie without railings
as a calming, yet alarming
pretty spectacular
Understood exactly
effortlessly carrying
a gaggle of laughs
way back
as a fitness fanatic
like the who, what, when, why
of backstabbing in a high-
tech class of anti-establishment...

Recreated Nightly

" Recreated Nightly "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Haunting Litheness "

With a haunting litheness
in a once-in-a-lifetime
sound bite
recreated nightly
right
around midnight
among the emptied-out,
" Holy Cow! "
Prefixed with,
" morphosis "
not liquid
or gaseous
like a paradigm
of happiness
as yellow
as a banana
with the moral
standards
of a .org
And an affirmative
vote spoken
with an out-
stretched finger
of perjury
and piracy
while eating
humble pie
Like throwing
a bone
while under
the weather
of yesterday
with a palindromic
name
Catalyzed
as a reaction
to a component
of hemoglobin
by emitting
a slightly
bluish light
like a quiet,
" OOM-
PAH-
PAH! " ...

Seemingly Mesmerized

" Seemingly Mesmerized "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Exploring Decay "

Exploring decay
in a transparent tank
filled with rank
remains
requiring repeated
viewings
of reclining nudes
as seen in minute
smears
of disappearing ink
Leaving
white lines
of monotypes
created
for the entire
multiplication
table
as an exaggeration
filed away
with a suicidal
bride
in a silent
afterlife
As the unprintable
title
of fogged-over
eyes
begrudgingly
ending up
in a prison-
like jumbled
mind
with mood
lighting
Dancing awkwardly
away
from the limelight
seemingly mesmerized
by the finality
of accuracy
snuggling in mink
intent
on retarding it
In fits and starts
with a shot
in the arm
of the obvious
Suspended logic
holding
on with a nod
to the probable
as a cultivated star
of the foreign
with alarm
Like a guest artist
never wanting
the hardly
unwelcoming
milking
of publicity
like
a potbellied
pig
Gone unnoticed
after bringing
down the house
before a crowd
in an intimate
single ring
of the long familiar
within inches...

Otherwise

" Otherwise "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Any Column or Row "

In any column
or row
as far as anyone
could tell
participatory
and otherwise
seeming
to fit the criteria
as the opposition
backing the pact
as less plastic
and more transparent
Freestanding
creating heat and glare
while calling for fresh air
Sitting at desks
after winning a measure
from a major rupture
hoisted aloft frozen before
a rapt audience
Sinking into a painting
throughout the day
while admiring incised lines
nearby without a deadline
In a million years earless
in a white bobbed wig
with a tangle of wires
not far behind
replying to queries
of language speakers
in flightless flocks
above a humped ox
In a wound up hubbub
that hums as cousins
of whistling ones
but remembering none...

Experimental Play

" Experimental Play "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

They're supposed to
but so seldom do
as strangely moving
with amazingly fake wings
obviously involved
in some kind of wizardry
in a spruce tree
rotating 180 degrees
while heaving and swaying
at the first stage
of experimental play
Ranging from the occasional
of note today holding babies
atop tables like latter-day
annunciations
as an oddly modern paradox
of found objects
Both brilliant and predictable
rich and inquisitive
mixing and matching
abstractions exactly
as more animal than plant
with a sense of abandon...

Eager to Please

" Eager to Please "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " The Idea Escalated "

The idea escalated
as mannequins of men
stood at the ready
in rows of helmets
with a hefty preface
to a permanent perch
on unabashedly
unflattering wide angles
of taxidermied animals
In social transactions
turning out as unsatisfactory
like tongue-in-cheek
under close scrutiny
as wax effigies smiling blissfully
Well-known ambivalence
as if in a stint
with perpetual helter-skelter
in oversized black bags
embarrassingly
eager to please
like a golden retriever
Shrunken into a raft-sized pallet
then taken to task
as obviously opulent
with golden-flecked prominence
Identifying the "OMG" of orthodoxy
known intimately as emerald green
gradually smoldering
all the livelong day on a bulky frame
With quickness and little finesse
if nothing else as something
extra uninvested in ourselves...

Refreshing Seconds

" Refreshing Seconds "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Showy Cosmos:
"Take One" & "Take Two"

A suspension
of first impressions
in the presence
of refreshing seconds
shown off as breadth
with remnants
of immense spectacles
Largely ignored
as sibilant mourners
just before
the wing of an all-
important altar
Depicting the shore
as a line along water
like prisoners of war
sloshing after a tsunami
Recently seized
as a kind of thing
like a world-altering piece
acquired by a museum
and hung for all to see...

Film Stills

" Film Stills "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Having Spent "

Having spent
the eventual
and lost
momentum
as members
with unsettled
objections
as specialists
in limited aspects
In residence
in flimsy digs
bearing
the fractious
family
gatherings
gasping
gigantic
distended
masses
of indoor
plants
With
unflagging
sympathy
fixed
on just
one thing
artificially
revered
by a first-
sight
greeting
like
a late
medieval
silent
treatment
As puzzling
as crepuscular
bundles
of high culture
corrupted
by primitivistic
reclining women
in libidinous
film stills
splattered
on canvases
of horsehair
in aerobics class...

A Telling Lapse

" A Telling Lapse "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " Months Before "

Months before
teetering
while seeking
to rein in
the little-known
thwarted reports
in staccato
With a nod
to a star
as a chaotic
cosmic snarl
disappearing
into inevitability
with indignant
disbelief
Disguised
as bonhomie
adding sharply
to the top
of the heap
in stand-
up comedy
Never
wavering
from
the deadpan
shattered
by huge laughs
laid-back
on laugh tracks
acceding
to demands
held for ransom
With the utmost care
fancied as a man
with the biggest laugh
but a telling lapse
in slight of hand
harkening back
laid bare...

Long Before

" Long Before "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Thank the rapid
expansion
of, "Perhaps"
seemingly
rankled
by, "Denied!"
like a maestro
wielding a baton
of stringent
measures
with deftness
What it took
were
principal
artistic
differences
of belittlement
selling as liquor
in partnership
with hard spirits
irregularly invaded
by the estranged
Unscathed
and unsustained
as, "implausible"
bourn in
linguistic form
long before
moral
distortions
of, "right"
or, "wrong"
Predicated
along the way
over days
and days
of struggling
to stay
middle-aged
in the latest
forays
strongly based
in the day-
to-day
as honey makers
with droning names...

The Official Start

" The Official Start "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Grand Scale "

On a grand scale
in wide release
with nothing modest
about being smarter
at the official start
involving a blond-
haired constable
Embracing
unashamedly
all in the name
of a peaceful oasis
regained after betrayal
A mystically fortified
stultifying hybrid
witty, but not campy
while waiting
for the chance
for sword and fantasy
as long and noisy
like a sort of born-again
Cutting the engine
of lifelong obsession
too young to remember
under our breath
Under the pretense
of due diligence
as sung in select motets
minus instruments...