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...