" 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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