Aimlessly Chaste

" Aimlessly Chaste "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Unwinding Over
a Single Night "

Unwinding over a single night
never diminishing in wit
when resembling a critter
with hunched shoulders
in parodies of roles
rarely as thought provoking
as jet-black coughed-up hair balls
Interrupted mid-mugging
by the nail-biting
white-bread lives
armed with racing bikes
and shark-like smiles
acted out like
oversized fantasies
of complete weaklings
Drawn and fired
behind the scenes
of wayward experience
in the shrewdly specious
macho sequencing
of a corruptive hunk
Squirming belatedly
with resignation
baited by the solipsistic
masculine bait in a game
called out as catch
with the seductive banter
and trappings of avarice
Snapped into place
aimlessly chaste...

Bereft of Intelligence

" Bereft of Intelligence "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Straight into the Heart "

Straight into the heart
of rhapsodic rarities
with shades of irony
just happening to be
endearing as salutes
to the promises of live music
previously pre-recorded
As specially commissioned duets
testing how pleasure is expressed
under the pressure of poor health
Feeling as tense as hair metal
with the strong effects on eventual
gait and direction
rooted in sequestered gestures
bereft of intelligence
In a canny blend of jokes and jitters
in homage to the marginally ripped upper body voicing a paranormal screech with prosthetic teeth...

Spanning More

" Spanning More "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Just Days Away "

Just days away
from the long-awaited
unfortunate If unavoidable
spanning more
of the carefully thought
intricacies of history
With a temporary kitchen
and a substantial dinner
with a simpler main dish
of chicken livers
in a skillet of persistence
indicative of tradition
As blurred vision
preferably fresh
after losing its redness
returning to the question
of aromas of cherries
as a sixth sense
minus bitterness
As influential as memory
proceeding to benefit
pastry chefs
like rum-raisin
mulled flavors
in three layers
As glazed invitations
smashed into a paste
drizzled with the remaining
lightly dressed preparations
after a spell
of cool weather
at the center...

Chronicled On and Off

" Chronicled On and Off "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " There is No Innocence "

There is no innocence
in artfulness like plastic objects
locked in an archly unhearty
post-modernist mock hip-hop
of to and fro in a rippling solo
of overt self-disclosure
Prospering as smartness
in irksome dramas of reportage
with tick tick tocks in epilogues
like forearms far beyond sidearms
of familiar gotchas
As self-conscious tentative nods
gone for a romp gaudily awash
in chaotic fog-horn honks
promising knowledge
in foreign fonts
as phenomenons
Like mild larks
as vague targets
of harsh comments
chronicled on and off
an awful lot
Skilled in comic
hodgepodges
so much
for the plots
as departures
from suicide
watches
trying way
too hard

Hard to Embrace

" Hard to Embrace "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Largely Translations "

Largely translations
laid out
and hard to embrace
through a maze
of widely anticipated
implausible saliency
fast awakening
and up to date
In negotiation
as a coterie
near completion
modestly and cautiously
with a small light
turned on inside
once in a while
Starting out
as a fractal
without pitch
or timbre
modestly
picturing
the naïveté
as a stranger
shall we say
Down to the sources
of each tone
along slippery slopes
of probing pathos
further away
from per se
As a warm attachment
to the past
walking or chattering
while glowing
in amber somewhere
As hapless stepping stones
neither knowing
nor mastering
stratospheres
of inanity
with find madness
scandalously stacked
As aimless characters
making pitiable statements
like madcap beanbag chairs
trying to spark odd concoctions
by dancing in the dark
embarking with eyebrows arched....

Pop Out of the Dark

" Pop Out of the Dark "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " It Doesn't Matter "

It doesn't matter
practicing being scared
when mobsters
pop out of the dark
and you get
your freak on
with a superstar
dear to your heart
while chugging
a cocktail
in spotted pajamas
Screaming can hardly
be helped
when suitably
creeped out
in a haunted house
stalked by chainsaws
and dim quarters
Choose any medium
like a gnarled bottle
in a scarlet box
as angels drop
on what will follow
perched on stars
with a fixed repertoire
Miraculously intact
built from scratch
based on patterns
of artifacts
believed to have
vanished
Only graphics
on a black screen
with typed commands
like, " walk east "
and, " open window "
with no mouse
and no sound
wandering without
never having
been allowed...

Entourages of Juried Art

" Entourages of Juried Art "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Listed on the Masthead "

Listed on the masthead
as a way of saying,
" Wonky " without
being, " Geeky "
when wincing
with resignation
and straining
for effort
as pulpheaded
grotesques
of indelible
"whatevers "
Obliquely
evoking
devotional
close-ups
as full-throated
disassociations
mixing and mingling
fittingly with ragtag
sensibilities
Planning and regretting
skimpy breakfasts
with confessions
of heavy drinking
engulfed in tiger lilies
including scholars
abs security guards
doubling as snuffboxes
In entourages of juried art
as peasants toddle
and frogs hop in a windup
clock of catharsis...

A Long-Time Otherwise

" A Long-Time Otherwise "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Doesn't Even Resemble "

Doesn't even resemble
a more compelling
entrance as psychedelics
instead of inter-active
anything elses
poking their heads
into cramped stairwells
suggesting the tendency
to fester throughout all the rest
As infrared emergences
at the other end of several
more compelling
centuries of spectrums
of fear and depression
extending
into morbid withdrawal
shrugging off
after all
Almost all fragments
attached
topped by cut glass
supplanting
exacting dry brown grasses
as baleful
idiocies of man
with soul-cramping
abandon
Life-enhancing
crystalline masters
of spiritual catastrophes
as finicky small-scale
brain-scramblers
Coming to mind
as eerily quiet nearbys
on a highly refined
long-time otherwise...

Picking Up the Pace

" Picking Up the Pace "

by Suzán Jiván

Now and over
to the next fennel
and garlic
starting to soften
over medium heat
thickening slightly
Estimated on Thursday
picking up the pace
with change
in the making
as traces
of persuasion
by lantern-faced
fundraisers
with insatiable
slavering fangs
as dopplegängers
just days away
from the long-awaited
Closed for renovation
wafting from a café
all in the name
of fire regulations
and reinstallations
of imagined space
with great anticipation
in an empty gray space
of bewildering states
of opiate intoxication
unmoored from self-
deprecating foundations
with waivers...

Aged in New Barrels

" Aged in New Barrels "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Inventive and Gifted "

Inventive and gifted
wanting to whip it up
as a hankering
for a masterpiece
of ingenuity
emerging bubbling
At a takeout window
after midnight
with an earthy aroma
and fruity flavor
on a cheese tray
baked with meringue
Now the main
meaty flavor placed
on a plate
in an array
of basking flavors
of marinade
Turning occasionally
charred in places
then crumbled with bacon
minus the wait
Winsomely bitter
in the tradition
of citrus-tinged suspicion
somewhere in the middle
Denser and more tannic
but attractive
aged in new barrels
found on the common ground
of awakening palates
balanced with the silky
lush flavors of flowers...

In Combination

" In Combination "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Disproportionate Pleasure "

Disproportionate pleasure
revealing
a conspiratorial bent
at an ultra-
high temperature
using left-
over heat in a wrinkle
as perks
living on in moussaka
Full stop
in a completive market
swamped
with mini models
grumpy
and hungary when
inducted
into just too big
Slammed through
as just too cute
hand-rolled
mottled waffles
as most popular
while sporting
a dollop on top
Probably not
a major olive
in combination
with Parmesan
laboriously
cores and chopped
into a colander
then poured
into a warm pot...

Unfussy Love

" Unfussy Love "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Needs and Gets "

Needs and gets
some connected
some projected
like pratfalls
of unfussy love
cheering up,
" I tawt I taw
a ting ta draw "
With a winning score
of the skinny sort
forfeited in autumn
sinking ball after ball
more and more
Mourning
recognizable stories
while laughing along
but holding off
guffaws
as happy-go-lucky
designs for life
held off to the side...

Artifacts of Major Outrage

" Artifacts of Major Outrage "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Trying to Retain "

Trying to retain
artifacts of major outrage
as an A.O.K.
like a chance to play
along the way
while awakening
to incarnation
in legacies of pathos
Inducing conscious-
raising in the face
of a surname
leisurely against
the speed and pace
of a digital age
Via older creative
affectations
in shipping containers
with something
of the flavor of fleeting
beauty mixed in
with world-weary cruelty
Consisting mainly
of unseen demons
in profane fables
with high-ranking
outsized prosaic campaigns
of pervasive persuasion
and patronage without complaint
Dwelling on the demise
of covert alliances all in the mind
as a de-emphasized
humankind while doing time
Barely worth mentioning
in first-name notation by the way
chilling, say as estranged roommates
drawing acclaim while lying
dying with subtitles of blurry lines...

No-Good Threats

" No-Good Threats "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Glancing Back "

Glancing back
to an international
collaboration
with one feeding
off the other
determined
to smother
cultural couplings
winding up
unfulfilled
with stinginess
A colleague insists
on poignant existence
shot in a shimmering
daily grind
swelling to a fame-
obsessed
directionless, " Yelp "
Attesting to the premise
of hell-bent rejection
catching the attention
of no-good threats
rebelliously empty...

Push-Button Realms

" Push-Button Realms "

by Suzán Jiván

Admiring comments
inspiring and creepy
outside the ring
while obsessively peering
into push-button realms
of relentlessness
as barbed endeavors
of the not-so-tender
All too familiar
compulsively shifting
between comic jigs
of stiff-upper-lips
and tongue-in-cheeks
by undergoing
mind-control
in starting roles
Most valuable overtones
like comminglings
of stardom and firearms
in muddles of art
as post-Oscar
whispered as, " Ah "
with fragile charm
becoming jarring
as , " Ahhhh! " ...

Between Fleeing & Facing

" Between Fleeing and Facing "

by Suzán Jiván

Unanswerable in advance
of physical intimacy
curling up without incident
switching between fleeing
and facing ordeals
sturdy then frail
contingent on circumstance
happening off camera
Preparing for a new recruit
from the acutely rural
whatever the mood
from solitude to collusion
with the ingenuity
of a communal pseudonym
masking shallow shams
and romantic clamorings
with amorous arrogance
Lithe young bodies
with sinewy sinister
charisma candidly dabbling
with indeterminate spans
of antagonistic happiness
Intermittently chuckling
amid bickering as sequels
in a gag-reel
commendably free
despite contrivances
with passers by
as relatively wise
but liable to lapse
into an anticlimax
of sheer madness...

Lit from Within

" Lit from Within "

by Suzán Jiván

The bold resurgence
of stunning sultriness
as sumptuous luxury
with uncanny knacks
for the grand geeky-glam
as luminaries of masters
lit from within
Capturing a panorama
divided by horizon lines
gone tragically awry
more and more privately
underlying above right
Strikingly delicate
In private collections
by flashlight
a few weeks shy
of admirers on the fly
Like studies of juveniles
getting their due
relatively soon
by mastering their fruits
A character study
as maximum gross
overly clever
none-the-less
already said
plagued
by the long-dead
paying attention
Both surpisingly
and brokenheartedly
through wordplay
with careful parings
of, " Never Fails " ...

Stacked

" Stacked "

by Suzán Jiván

The putative aura
of chunky forms
laminated with plastic
as special status
stacked
like falling ladders
gleaming proudly
Torn and gouged
stained and splattered
after being bent over backward
on monochromed grounds
suggesting collapse
as less nostalgically
fragmented
like latter-day maps
Scratched and ragged
no-nonsense stares
stoically exalted
when grasped
hand-over-hand
in all-over patterns
of top-ranked talent...

Now Showing

" Now Showing "

by Suzán Jiván

It should
be noted
in hand-
blown
tableaux
as serious
moments
as if you
didn't know
disclosed
In poetic
repose
now showing
out of focus
and all alone
Superbly airy
as a face-
framing
exaggeration
like a phalanx
of invigorating fray
Highly artificial
filled with the glint
and quirks
of contradiction
as indivisible...

Classical Decades

" Classical Decades "

by Suzán Jiván

One here, one there
as an adaptive wisecrack
to the classical decades past
sturm and drang
Like dating and romance
as an overbearing mish-mash
of a stage collapse
Recapitulated with improvisation
in an off-stage ballet
choreographed
with the latent intimation
of action and restraint...

What's Left Behind

" What's Left Behind "

by Suzán Jiván

It's just nostalgia
once ubiquitous
now limited
like human-
powered
watercraft
while watching
the horizon
then observing
what's left behind
like vibrating wakes
flag waving
in our eyes
and in our hair
as visceral cringes
on packing lists
sent up the road a bit
after pausing with thought
and making a corporeal
choice of assault
star-gazing
in a backyard parking lot
looking for migrant species
while remembering thinking
for the last time
this season with immediacy...

Ingenuity of the Day-to-Day

" Ingenuity of the Day-to-Day "

by Suzán Jiván

Often shared and experienced
as analytical thinking
mixed indistinguishably
with the ingenuity of the day-to-day
surpassing matter-of-factness
as magically mind-stretched
beginnings compressed end-to-end
as a little of the incredible
as exceptionally receptive attentiveness like self-reflexive surrender into hallucinogenic
loops of illusion as considerable
ambition gently immersive
mercifully facing away
while memorizing names
too heavily for lightweight...

Metaphysical Inklings

" Metaphysical Inklings "

by Suzán Jiván

Blending whimsy
with difficulty
while capturing
abilities
supplied by
scratchily organic
and deadpan
tolerance
for eccentricities
with anti-literal
metaphysical inklings
like the heavens and earth
beyond all promise
as the melody of a harp
often cosmic
small and specific
like high-pitched non-fiction...

Epiphanies

" Epiphanies "

by Suzán Jiván

Surprisingly
tolerable
nonsense
marred
by question
marks
and sounds
of dirty-
word bombs
lobbed
through
bleachy-
white
teeth while
shrieking
epiphanies
like wishful
thinking
rankled
by bland
laughter
soon
thereafter...

Redemption

" Redemption "

by Suzán Jiván

Interspersing
obvious returns
to the world
whether or not
redemption
is possible
in a conventional
plot of time-
lapse shots...

Long-Held

" Long-Held "

by Suzán Jiván

Pleasantly
removed
from the
hurly-
burly
with
long-held
shots
concealing
as much
as they reveal
deliberately
stripped
of drama
early on...

Mission Style

" Mission Style "

by Suzán Jiván

Untitled
arranged
by type
as mask-like
lifetimes
coming
back to life
mission style...

Palpable Determination

" Palpable Determination "

by Suzán Jiván

Signed and dated
with palpable determination
repeatedly indicated
from body to face
animated as angular
softened by shading
like planar culminations...

As a Heyday

" As a Heyday "

by Suzán Jiván

Remarkably free
examining something
of a blessing
rather tentatively
freshly displayed
in a hallway as a heyday
with a penetrating gaze...

For the Quick-Witted

" For the Quick-Witted "

by Suzán Jiván

Not until the tiniest
wee bit of thrift
for the quick-witted
astoundingly riven
with the unfamiliar
shaved into ribbons
before rot sets in...

Totally Staid

" Totally Staid "

by Suzán Jiván

Stay far away
from the recom-
mendations
you may
have made
after becoming
totally staid
by posing
and questioning
the very same
taste sensations
where lobsters
and steaks reign...

Hard Pressed

" Hard Pressed "

by Suzán Jiván

Grating the frozen
pepperoni
hard pressed
to forget
keeping abreast
of new tastes
on market-
fresh plates
topped
by the craziest
out-there flavors...

Shapely Forms

" Shapely Forms "

by Suzán Jiván

On and off
showing off
much more
as a signature song
fraught with longings
in shapely forms
of anime and warmth...

Surveying

" Surveying "

by Suzán Jiván

Resembling a swing set
as a legacy to the playful
ensconced in a tubular landscape
surveying
purveyances of levitation in chains...

Global Ratios

" Global Ratios "

by Suzán Jiván

Hard to resist
calligraphic scripts
hand-scrolled
over bamboo groves
in global ratios
as juxtaposed osmosis...

Over the Decades

" Over the Decades "

by Suzán Jiván

Inquisitive
and passionate
as much
talked about
earlier works
long-awaited
and full-length
over the decades
in masterly range...

Flourishing

" Flourishing "

by Suzán Jiván

Elevated
on a small
inaugural
pedestal
in an original
retrospective
exhibition
flourishing
commensurably
as memory
on a free-
standing hand-
holdable scale...

Kaleidoscopic Oxygen

" Kaleidoscopic Oxygen "

by Suzán Jiván

A number of big names
take the stage
breathing relief
featuring sighing
yielding
kaleidoscopic oxygen
as artists...

Silhouetted

" Silhouetted "

by Suzán Jiván

An archive carved out
then flattened
with solicitous facets
silhouetted
conceptually against
severity...

As Happenstance

" As Happenstance "

by Suzán Jiván

Converse as a semi-
circular purpose
stacked vertically
as happenstance
in a thread-bare tapestry
hanging awkwardly
like a life-size portrait...

Inexhaustibly Small

" Inexhaustibly Small "

by Suzán Jiván

A wing resembling
recent history tapering toward
an inexhaustibly small
flexible point delicately strong...

As It Happens

" As It Happens "

by Suzán Jiván

A destination
as it happens
like an enactment
of bas relief
perfectly installed
soothingly decorous
all along a far opposite wall...

Intervals

" Intervals "

by Suzán Jiván

Other visitors as snippets
arriving
at indiscriminate
intervals
requiring various riffs
like intermittent
biopic stills as sample clips...

As Art

" As Art "

by Suzán Jiván

The biggest
so far
happening
as art
trying hard
innocuously
like captions
bringing
abstractions
to narratives
as massively
cobbled plazas
at triangular angles...

Notable

" Notable "

by Suzán Jiván

Small,
but engrossing
now showing
as an almost
robust triumph
resembling a giant
clear-eyed decisively
notable
flight into equanimity
with poetry
depicted munificently
singly and collectively...

Top-Ranking Pranksters

" Top-Ranking Pranksters "

by Suzán Jiván

Something more than formal
like the cracked-glass
top-ranking pranksters
as indefatigable characters
in pointy-toothed cartoons...

Old Style

" Old Style "

by Suzán Jiván

Hard
to establish
the lack
as no choice
like entirely
longstanding
bona fide
wry riffs
surrounded
by old-style
dry humor...

Icy and Austere

" Icy and Austere "

by Suzán Jiván

A fair number
of caustic guffaws
in accordance
with boisterous
distortions
like wintry histories
sanitized
icy and austere
scrubbed clean
by a mere trifling
of twittering giggles...

A Joint Force

" A Joint Force "

by Suzán Jiván

An extended essay
as a joint force
of a cause
for countering
mounting
status or character
like a biannual survey
made up of everything from
graffiti to junk as multiple subjects
at surprisingly seductive junctures...

Smartphone Wielding

" Smartphone Wielding "

by Suzán Jiván

Longstanding interest
in narrative embellishments
with sartorial trends
as splendid mannequins
opening up possibilities
of subtleties evincing
crowd-pleasing
smartphone wielding scrutiny...