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...