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...