Storybook Charm

" Storybook Charm "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán


Storybook charm
jarred
by a water park
for privileged toddlers
flip-flopping
onto mom-and-pop
indoor docks


noviced tinderboxed
anomalies
of unlikely monuments
for blockbustered
housing projects


dressing the part
in snapshots
of hotshots
as upstarts
for hiphop


bizarrely disco-esque
trafficked imaginatively
conjuring nighttime crises
heated by extreme bonfirings


as trusty bows and arrows
pierce inflatable rescue boats
demanding body microphones
for scissor-legging theater goers


ka-chinging lingos
as brandings
for leaping dancers
standing down
reaching out


commandeering
buttery popcorn seasons
freely released in theaters
for all the wrong reasons
during scene stealing



admonishing bursts of birdshot
while waving flags of endangered faces
feeling the stinging of harshening fees
of fiber-optic spying companies


angered over secret
security agreements
not covering
maternity leave


leading to stealthy birthings
withdrawing their pay day
the American Way
by ousting payouts
filed way too late


lightheartedly novel
hitting the charts
blinded by bling
trumpeting celebrity
dizzily peacocking
with the downbeat of Ming...