Provoked

" Provoked "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Provoked
praised for boldly
onerous
gender-controlled
fashion shows


seemingly serious
in need of feverish immediacy
like runway pieces
for high-end boutiques


including baggy jammys
worn backwards
as shammies
on designer racks


stagnating labels
in half the cases
of hand-made
blue lasers
for over-the-top
presentations


individually portrayed
as single shades
of black jacks in spades
during bridge games


being played
while wearing
light-weight chambray
at card tables
on sunny days


painted and framed
like navy windbreakers
of tailor-made crazy eights
evenly spaced and uncomplicated
in new generations of plainness


interfacing the graceful
in all sorts of ways on estates
of former days in many ways
mundane like white-gloved fame
for slaves put up in the basement


as wind-swept games of trade
at the end-stage
of a non-profit organizations
taking their names
from human remains...