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...