Underlying the Rise

" Underlying the Rise "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Underlying the rise
of high-profile hideouts
while privately relying
on the White House



braved by the likes
of undermined defiance
as gossip sites
centering on killers for hire



shot blocked with bravado
at a bus stop with a following
for site-specific projects
of cavernous parks



oxymoronic ocular art
as mobster genres
for can-you-top-this zombies
heatedly arguing



blunt-witted comedies
of abhorrent ideas
cleverly conceived
even exciting



sin-riddled sex
rehearsed in sequences
of hand gestures
dips and bends
arms outstretched



stump speeches
buntings cross country
with the diameters
of Wiki-Leaked Frisbees



funky beats
sawing heaving
in shaggy-dog stories
from anthropological
Gospels and Psalms
without qualms



glowering darkly
unnaturally attached
to unfathomable
running gags



like one kind or another
snivelingly funny
as worlds overrun
by loved ones



diverted
mildly disturbed
as self-assured
unseen leaders
of uncertainty



venturing
beyond redemption
cruelly and senselessly
dialing up disconnections



ignorant of potential
forced to jettison
test, test, test
one dimensionally



fathomless scads of flattery
overreaching incompatibility
like blind obedience
in knee-jerk perpetuity



head-clutchingly
pitying the panicky
in well-inked poetry
like a monk in the opening
walking home alone
foretold as voice-overs in retro...