Night-Lighted High Beams

" Night-Lighted High Beams "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Speeding past
alter egos
as stand ins
uncannily
unmasked
with the grist
of side-stepping
self criticism


donning pink slips
with the munificence
of undergrads
while trailing
writerly tasks
like loyal fans
of philanthropy


story matching
with the catch
of the day
splashing past
stumbling backwards
as snaggers of salmon


in 6-Down locales
as leaders of the pack
with fiddle-faddle
for answers across the land
of stuccoed chapels


desperate for cash
lost in thought
in a black chalk
self-portrait
for holy orders
of awfulness
with abhorrent
sensual softness


in haunted corridors
filled with the deformed
organized jointly
like shock absorbers
bumpy and raw


impossible to ignore
unmatched on asphalt
via apps with too little gas
as flaws of annoyance


needlessly tinkering
while wallowing
in the mainstream
of up-front fees
as facsimiles
read digitally

as comical
hoedown partners
abscond with whiskey shots
as accent marks
for crimes of opportunity
devoted to discos
in downtown buildings
overly reverential
along the edges


continually drawn
by a phallic hood ornament
twice the normal size
being dynamited
by night-lighted high beams
for black sheep grazing green
in their bleating infancy


undaunted by previously
unseen gene-splicing technologies
secretly streaming live
like juvenile delinquency
gone wild with misaligned
hormonal vibes in overdrive...