A Self-Selected Network

" A Self-Selected Network "

by Suzán Jiván, Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A self-selected network
of online friends for every
preference and prospect


pitched and upticked
by a plagiarist
with a real-life feel
of the weirdly familiar


as sweaters smelling
faintly of peat
in a bubble and a squeak


balding and ugly
frequently peeling away
wearing a blonde wig
and a conical bra
as hiding spots


while missing the mark
for next year's model
with four F sharps at the ER
rouge or blanc


as an old Saab
drizzled upon
like a snob
with little
in the way
of dialogue


in a campy
drinking party
of a bipolar novel
like a loud and chaotic
séance with quiet disregard


strongly autobiographical
adverb heavy with revenge
in the retelling of a lech


like lemon and thyme
as two lives sometimes
hiding by writing
in undermined plot lines


reread many times
while attempting satire
in a mash-up
of who-done-its


nursing one another
with way too much
of sullen primary subjects
as suspects gone clubbing...