Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Owning Up to Speaking Up

" Owning Up to Speaking Up "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Kicked in the head
as a matter of seconds
facing up to breaking up


as fracasful situations
haunt relationships
owning up to speaking up


delivering blows
with one-joke slogans
scheming to take over


muddied states
of soft-spokenness
fully disclosed


girlish antidotes
as subplots cohere
reeking of false bonhomie


bursting into tears
coming out swinging
with last-minute tweaks


less intriguing credos
as sentimental so-and-sos
thanks mostly to tenacious holds


playing roles
of unspeakable
voice overs
like bloated contrarians
short on details


self-deluded self-invented
overdone accents
of controlled vertigo


in vocal face-offs
of bravado's falsettos
or so the saying goes...

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