Wednesday, November 30, 2011

All is Right in Story Lines

" All is Right in Story Lines "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Becoming Funny
and Weird and Sloppy "

Becoming
funny
an weird
and sloppy
when thrown
for a loop
in narrow
green rooms
of the totally
natural
emptied out
as paradigms
of unhappiness
like fried ants
in disparate
fairy tales
as fractured
characters
in mismatched
casts
With a rhetorical tic
of vulgar kitsch
dismissed
with the fragility
of unscientific rigor
while leaping
over limits
unflinchingly
like a prestigious
mistress
and pre-eminent
critic
of pictorial brilliance
in multiple disciplines
of gambler, swindler,
and alchemist
With spotty knowledge
prompted by the top-
most gossip
of an inexorable
prosecutor
in two parts
as an unorthodox
memoir
In spicy cuisine, sweetie
" Gosh Almighty! "
freely embracing
then running away
after a break up
with a jack-of-all-trades
then leaving the stage
along a fertile plain
of strap-shaped
stream beds
within the broad range
of late middle age
Assuming a deep groove
of allocution
dramatically patterned
in red and black
reduced to powder
when mixed
with pungent flowers
of musk mallow
And hiding out
in the otherwise
gaudy good times
as indecipherable
uninspired writings
like a riot
of inedible wild
loosestrife
Then all is right
in story lines
like fireweed
in showy spikes
replete
with sweet
buckeye...

In a Partner's Arms

" In a Partner's Arms "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Almost Upon Us "

Almost upon us
in a partner's arms
all along
while peeling off
the not-so-sure
in a guided tour
of enormous glory
unperformed
before an audience
in counterpoint
whittled down
to a compelling account
of calamitous
snorts of scorn
first and foremost
with deniability
of course
never coming across
as the mission falters
with impecunious support
in the forefront
Sustained by a rum-laced cake
practically in one's face
taken way too far
like much of a flock
with little regard
for the precious metals
of a talisman
from everywhere else
endlessly summoning up
turbulent bravado
in moral documents
quickly pivoting
with the dismissiveness
of unlikely innocents
in microchips
Insular and prickly
top-to-bottom
as erect fronds
from stout rootstock
rich in starch
pounded into flour
as scaly nut-grass
scattered
and difficult
to gather
as cattails
and bracken
Like bureaucratic
black magic
loutish and tacky
with a cockney accent
as a geriatric alligator
peevish and snappy
with an enigmatic laugh
shielding against cancer
as a bizarre idiosyncratic charm
with a fiercely common big heart...

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Like a Miasmic Camphor

" Like a Miasmic Camphor "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Propped Up
on a Harpsichord "

Propped up on a harpsichord
willfully transformed
by a trenchant voice
with a bit of tabloid force
pulling the whole score off course
in a series of wall pieces
hanging from a rectangular peg rack
as a penchant for the abstract
on a red-and-white banner
in the manner of a patchwork
twisting against black
in a vacant chapel
narrow, jagged and masked
with a miasmic camphor
Like extra hours
for taxidermied animals
stacked one upon another
on their favorite basking log
as a fête gallante
of contemporary art
with greatly enlarged heads
as early nesters
Like legendary Hellbenders
facing off with hordes of predators
with almost nothing but scores
to settle with anyone else
like a code of silence
on a slimed fishing line
As miners panning for gold
along a remote riverside
forming nuggets from dust
in cuddlefish bones
Steeped in local lore
along twin falls
tickled at the thought
of being carved
from pink marble
then being mocked
as facsimiles
of the flotsam
like rubber duckies
gone amok
on virtually
any subject
if not for nothing
as a font wonk
with interlocking
camaraderie...

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

In the Upper Ranges

" In the Upper Ranges "

by Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for Rebecca, Russ
Kenny, Jimmy
Mark, Danielle
& Eric...

Performed on YouTube
as, " At the Nexus "

At the nexus of adoring the gawping
of a goofball hoop-skirted performance
in plain sight all along creaking
floorboards as test runs
come stumbling
to an end
Envied and imitated
as the critically acclaimed
like throwaways
of the strangely unsustainable
Absorbed into the mainstream
by channeling lipstick
and cockiness implicitly
followed as the love of artistry
with psycho-melodic sass
While hugging tightly
with a mellifluous yelp
in falsetto headlong
behind closed doors
and coming across
as nothing short
Like all accordings
graciously seen
above the waist
with enablement
as free-spirited
improvisation
in the upper ranges ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Like Blarney for a Sexpot

" Like Blarney for a Sexpot "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Trading Blame "

Trading blame
and bracing
for covert saviors
speciously revered
as ungodly
ruling bodies
not pretty
but still unbeaten
On the big-name
A-list after a brazen
raid on and off stage
without the restraints
of a plaything
Whizzing at high-speed
during a lifelong trip at sea
with the familiar sitcomish shtick
nibbling on chips as a cartoonish
patrician in response to a mêlange
of mixed feelings from shredding
egos and swapped barbs
Rambling on while name dropping
like blarney for a sexpot
with skeletal parts
under binoculars irregardless
Commandingly in charge
and hence harmless
after cashing a last heart
discarded like a diamond
from the dummy
while running clubs
with a high trump
and declaring ruffs
as luxury loving
under discussion
Finding a comfort
in the early
incontrovertible inertness
of someone else's words
in a close-mouthed world
Plotting to rebuild
after bringing down
the house
without boundaries
like shooting stars
reenacted as blasts
with little chance
of ravaging impact
when slammed
into taking action
as an unprecedented
show of power
in a touchdown
Being coddled
above and beyond
with cultural prominence
like landmarks as said parts
of artistry venturing onto
an overhanging branch
with an intimate scale
and carefree abandon...

Monday, November 21, 2011

Bared in Pairs

" Bared in Pairs "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Stylistically Divergent "

Stylistically divergent
urban and rural
either yellowish
or purplish
tending to fix
the bitter
in just
over a minute
with wild ginger
Above ground
with solitary
flowers
of brown
supported
between stout
wooly stalks
bared in pairs
Bundled up
in popular
culture
trimmed in fir
opposed
to open
roads
with hips
held
on the bush
through winter
in bristling thickets
covered with sticky
reddish hairs
on sandy pastures
Coarse species
forming
dense clumps
of conspicuously
wrinkled leaves
large deep
rose to white
in survival
along dry
open
roadsides
Long
arching
grey-green
stout and downy
with unopened flowers
lacking milky sap upland...

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Glimpsing the Unspecific

" Glimpsing the Unspecific "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Longtime Confidant "

A longtime confidant of probably not
following the normal standards
and demographics as blonde
and bubbly especially when
saying dark things triumphantly
and setting up punchlines like, "um"
Then goosing the crowd by shouting
out, " Get Out! " after a catty sigh
like longtime undying bookings
on " Tonight " blissfully like
a kind of salad made
famous by Julia Child
while getting blubbery
from Monopoly money
As anonymous artisans
wearing conical
likenesses carved
from bony objects
steeped in red
across a predatory
marital bed stretched
across a frenzied
center of cryogenic stealth
A common result
early in its run
sometimes funny
sometimes suffering
coming to life at dusk
with an audible stillness
and a look of innocence
in a payola figure
Almost in its original form
seen by many many more
as a small comfort
excerpted from a longer version
with a close-up showing
a handful of loans
nailed in only two takes
late in middle age
Especially legendary
like a stupefying expression
spoken with a biting gesture
like a bug-eyed bonehead
resembling a walrus-tusked chessman
in a Medieval collection as no contest
Revelling in unfamiliar dimensions
with toothpicks and bits of string
glimpsing the unspecific
in an exhibition
scrapped as a catalog
too daunting to print
given the obvious
as impossible...

Erotic Freedom

" Erotic Freedom "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Some Essential Way "

In some essential way
endangered and underplayed
running off stage
posturing with self-conscious
intolerance
and wobbly sabotage
in a dodgy deal
Overstuffed and underedited
as a hardly fitting end
intermittently wasted
and content to hang
with a cagy mate
forlornly drained
and wiped out painfully
In a low-wattage drama
masked with algae
flattened as a captive
serrated toward the back
like a familiar, " snapper "
in a flask-shaped cavity
Within a burgeoning ethos
of erotic freedom
burrowing with front feet
around the margins of ponds
bound with goldenrod
fringed prominently
with a pink calyx
sweetened to taste...

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Pretty Sure of Grandeur

" Pretty Sure of Grandeur "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Acute and Ardent "

Acute and ardent
supposed
to have shown
a new-fangled shrewdness
becoming
pretty sure of grandeur
in the ordinary world
by unfurling under a curl
and turning furiously
into a judge and jury for rulings
on innocence and guilt
As overlapping granular scales
with dark triangular patches
some black, some blue like crossbands
in glaringly arid and semi-arid lands
with distinctly creviced females
and blandly barred males
Clearly marked as clutches
in clump grass in sunny
woodlands and sandy flats
shy and wary with splotches and spots
between femoral pores
found foraging in the mourning
eyes paling in the damp...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Distinct Body Regions

" Distinct Body Regions "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Northern Temperate Zones "

Northern
temperate
zones
for sirens
and moles
with distinct
body regions
capped
with packets
of sperm
displayed
in a wide
range
of jellylike
eggs
lost during
trans-
formation
yelling
when captured
and squirming
vigorously
when handled
Nestling
in winter
waiting
for spring
in sheltering
cavities
emitting clicks
after wrestling
in leaf litter
threatened
by red
underbellies
and swelling
vents...

In Open Scrub Oak

" In Open Scrub Oak "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " An Heir Apparent "

An heir apparent
abundant
in open scrub oak
easily burrowing
prominently knobby
with dark spotting
and conspicuous
cranial crests
Filling in the picture
by setting aside
differences
of messy textures
and confused senses
then trilling musically
breeding
in sensual pools
of drenching monsoons
In the first two movements
principle and subsidiary
as the case with a penchant
for a frenzied tenth degree
peppered with red flecks
snout-to-vent
Opening
and closing
as top-grossing
tightly focused
replays
as mostly late
compilations
of lighter-
spirited days
Expressing
joyful
abandon
by basking
on stumps
or lower
reaches
of tree
trunks
after
tunneling
under
prickly
brush
with
a husky
skink...

Monday, November 14, 2011

An Opening Line of the Likewise

" An Opening Line of the Likewise "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Featuring the Accomplished "

Featuring
the accomplished
recent self-release
while spinning
with tradition
as well as
the unexpected
twists and turns
of dramaturgical surgery
with the painstaking detail
of a noir gangster in drag
as a felon without question
Obsessively pressing
the fast-forward button
like a vibrating device
for trucking the mind
in front of each eye
stymying dilation
plus befuddling
the tongue
When tethered together
with momentum
while hanging our heads as a sign
of an opening line of the likewise
not far behind
Like the equivalent
of a sinister familiar
forced to draw
a single straw
and coming up short...

Overlords Of Overdue Support

" Overlords of Overdue Support "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Repurposed
Psych-Pop Hit "

A repurposed psych-pop hit
with boho-chic prowess
stuffed with marquee pop
as Scottish post-rockers
pace the stage
under stark spots
and Potter nods
Continuing
to eschew
linear pop
as an angular
throwback
to giddy chic
densely howling
throughout prog-pop
in small ensembles
of post-bop
As burnt-caramel
for alto-sax
like idiosyncratic
fearless sopranos
Like piano
for four-hands
video-enhanced
and selectively adapted
as a caplet of neat standards
Under the auspices
of a rotating set
for a vintage quartet
performing
torturous songs
as encores
Along side overlords
of overdue support
as taste-making
sharp guitars
complete
with finger pics
for double strings
plucked
with exemplary
urgency
as modern
post-pop Bach...

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Teary Pipe Dreams

" Teary Pipe Dreams "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Notably Stronger Last Week "

Notably stronger last week
after making gains
with unworldly sensations
and rakish perturbations
Playing flugelhorn
in a rippling waltz
poignantly pinpointing
teary pipe dreams
in low keys
while wooing goose-
bump producing
corkscrewing
Hurtling two stories
after falling backward
into sodden
double entendres
packed
with mea culpas
and manic
hand-wringing
after lapping gin
out of a dog's dish
and prancing madly
at random or by accident...

Previously Unique Ideas

" Previously Unique Ideas "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " If This Cliché is Accurate "

If this cliché
is accurate
as the most interesting
character
with similarities
between then and now
revisited
by previously unique
ideas
becoming humdrum
when borrowed
from others
as burdensome
as phantom
nuns
Featured as new releases
piece by piece
with a ban on neither
harmonic catharsis
nor monophonic
confessions
like retreaded laments
At least read
as a script rewritten
as a premiere
for a serious
super hero
top grossing
anonymously
as Shakespeare
turned zombie...

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Explained Away as Parting Waves

" Explained Away as Parting Waves "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Amid So Many "

Amid so many lucky breaks
explained away as parting waves
of heartache like a mild narcotic
with a likeness to headlines
over the rest of our lives
Staying up late as painfully
long days like a range
of off stages over the decades
adjacent to diluted moods
of refusal like a hula
Cradled with string
while balancing
alternatives to pandering
as patchy pageantry
like copy cats of the drab
With a flourish amid the rather
real-life gag of untapped
cat's cradles being replaced
by flirtation cast haplessly
backward and fizzling out
as juxtaposed solos
fated only to pose
at the opening salvo...

While Flying Upside

" While Flying Upside "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " All Got Together "

All got together
as an over-
amplification
of familial
fragments
in sturm
and drang
As distinctive talents
featuring alien casts
in versions of glass
seen as mirrors
of the mercurial
let alone
as an opening
like a star pitcher
with an honest moniker
hardly begun
Heavily salinized
at high speed
while flying upside
down and backwards
with an uncertain laugh
in a slam-bang tank
filled with a fistful of skin
and a vial of unidentifiable pills
Starting circling while reading
something but coming
up bloody while tucked
away in amongst a jumpy pulse
still docked with an itchy trigger finger
Never released after lingering
with hit or miss as wistful listenings
like preludes to oral histories
in ancillary channels
pretty happily
Successes represented
as vocal chemistry
with a lettered
gentleman from strains
of the almost famous
idealized like blinders
In a fierce argument
outliving its usefulness
as dead wrong
in an uninteractive
travel narrative
constantly on tap
talking back...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Underwritten

" Underwritten "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Not Quite Farcical "

Not quite farcical
offering an over gloss
for a salsa
and merengue cohort
as an impromptu
put off cast call
at the complete
annoyance
of a purportedly
loyal audience
Not quite pulling
off the tenacity
of a sometime thriller
imbued with youth
in a biomusical
like a decisive timeline
for flinty survivors
with strong song styles
in working order
as passions still
underwritten within
an original script
Left uninvestigated
since a wizard-
seeking gimmicky
deliberance
with a tatted
wisecracking
masked man
as the answer
to lonely wales
with a backstabbing
riot of spangles
And the beat goes on
as uninterrupted thumps
of disruptive percussion
finding the courage
to drum up life's laments
summed up punch drunk...

Belle Canto Stardom

" Belle Canto Stardom "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Must Be Done "

Must be done as much
as a thrashing man
like an overbearing female
fueling the jukebox
of an unsound heart
like a pick-pocketed
show stopper retooled
by an uprooted boomer
Trying really really hard
in belle canto stardom
on tele-charge
as innocuous
ungodly, and largely
charm-free buried
underneath
reordering glee
Pioneering revivals
in the twilight
like a diva-sized ego
that never dies
after a haunting life
hiding out otherwise
inside indecipherable
overnights
Fallen under the spell
of a hooch-swilling
bawdy talker
mixing sordid songs
with little more
than overwrought
rotating casts
of amassed
farcical criminal
fragility clinched
with narcissistic rigidity...

In High Contrast

" In High Contrast "

by Suzán Jiván

Off-putting
starkness
of chattering
objects
in high contrast
like giant
tree slices
of self-conscious
modesty
within earshot
of a forest
Few and far
in between
gesture and geometry
of the long-lost
often overlooked
as either
industrious
or lucky
like flingers
of zingy
lines
outshined
by a gaudy
good time
In a long
song and dance
all about a cappella
as full potential
when collectively
stepped above
all the rest
with the exception
of a wrenching
placid set
After a crash
landing
with a con man
opening last
with spent passion
and avarice...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Undreamt Attempts

" Undreamt Attempts "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " There Is No Next "

There is no next
in undreamt attempts
to remember
after mulling over
being in the know
through voice overs
cobbled together
as odds and ends
conjuring hallways
clogged
with tomorrows
In a dented wall
crumpled on the floor
in foot-long
no ordinary flute songs
in short
longstanding
as manuscripts
from the past
In a rant of gasping
thin air in full-scale
blaring impairment
of future heirs
In formidable stills
of maudlin mundanity
dating from the old days
as blinking sweeps
on a radar screen
of incoming blips
in nano minutes...

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Without a Trace of Vagueness

" Without a Trace of Vagueness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Lauded by Critics "

Lauded by critics
with a flicker
for anyone interested
in miniature
differences in wit
as a state of weariness
without a trace of vagueness
between action and restraint
Shockingly clinical
blighted by road signs
funneling in light
toward matinee idols
in full flight
with spikes of sapphire
scrutinized
by actual life on multiple sites
Guided by bona fides
from earlier times
like strivings in little bits
brimming with
papier-mâché figures
as blissful walk-ins
Imagining similar skits
intermittently picturing
mounting multichannel
legacies unflinchingly
with cerulean skin
above suspicion
Like funkier digital quips
slightly off-kilter
when joining the ticket
with dissenting opinions
appearing as free-
spirited mimics
invariably with antipathy
and added instability
Executed in gridded order
all for a cause of enforced
sympathy all according
to inordinate laws
dipped in mortar
with a blurry aura
Painted toylike
commensurate
with memory
and too little
evidence
while pondered
under stark
closely bobbed
locks of harshness...

Unsubtleties

" Unsubtleties "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Seemingly Endless Run "

A seemingly endless run
accessorized by a turret
of unsubtleties
from graffiti to junk sculptures
of many subjects in big numbers
As a surveyish introduction
like a digital wunderkind
with an artifice of many riffs
intertwined with the divergent
free-style of desire as snippets
of possibilities in indigo
The most straightforward
sample clips of piano
with devotional
wrists and elbows
bending perilously
between printed sheets
in vintage depictions
of cataclysms
with certain tactility
Both weepy
and clear-eyed
with a sly alertness
to the divine
typified by acquired
states of mind
before your very eyes
Anguished cries
of, "Venal! ", " Ugly! " and " Weird! "
as satiric cartoonish boobies
accompanied by looming brutes
rummaging through stupefying refuse
of unctuous love run asunder...

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Raising Awareness

" Raising Awareness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Skin Art, Color Bomb "

Skin art, color bomb
with tatwax aftercare
to raise awareness
by wearing contacts
as upscale blackmail
flashbacks
of bedazzlement
Flipping out
as swoon-worthy
tried and true
fuzzbox funk
winding up
as tweeted niceties
pillaging for freebies
Like a pick-pocketed wallet
beneath the big top
in a blockbuster rostrum
hailing hallowed marks
while slogging through gridlock
in a parking lot of hot prospects
Atop a bluff in an uncultivated way
dressed in black and carrying
a walkie-talkie without railings
as a calming, not alarming
pretty spectacular
Understood exactly
after effortlessly carrying
a gaggle of laughs way back
as a fitness fanatic
like the who, what, when, why
of backstabbing in a high-
tech class of anti-establishment...

Sound Bites

" Sound Bites "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Haunting Litheness "

With a haunting litheness
in a once-in-a-lifetime
sound bite
recreated nightly
right around midnight
among the emptied-out,
" Holy Cow! "
Prefixed with, " morphosis "
not liquid or gaseous
like a paradigm of happiness
as yellow as a banana
with the moral standards of a .org
And an affirmative vote spoken
with an outstretched
finger of perjury and piracy
while eating humble pie
Like throwing a bone
while under the weather
of yesterday
with a palindromic name
Catalyzed
as a reaction to a component
of hemoglobin by emitting
a slightly bluish light
like a quiet, " OOM-PAH-PAH! " ...

Monday, November 7, 2011

Smears of Disappearing Ink

" Smears of Disappearing Ink "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Exploring Decay "

Exploring decay
in a transparent tank
filled with rank
remains requiring
repeated viewings
of reclining nudes
as seen in minute
smears of disappearing ink
Leaving white lines
of monotypes
created
for the entire
multiplication table
as an exaggeration
filed away
with a suicidal bride
in a silent afterlife
As the unprintable title
of fogged-over eyes
begrudgingly ending up
in a prison like
jumbled mind
with mood lighting
Dancing awkwardly
away from the limelight
seemingly mesmerized
by the finality of accuracy
snuggling in mink
intent on retarding it
In fits and starts
with a shot in the arm
of the obvious
Suspended logic
holding on with a nod
to the probable
as a cultivated star
of the foreign
with alarm
Like a guest artist
never wanting
the hardly
unwelcoming
milking of publicity
like a potbellied pig
Gone unnoticed
after bringing down
the house
before a crowd
in an intimate
single ring
of the long familiar
within inches...

Participatory

" Participatory "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " In Any Row or Column "

In any row or column
as far as anyone
could tell
participatory
and otherwise
seeming
to fit the criteria
as opposition
backing the pact
as less plastic
and more transparent
Freestanding
creating heat and glare
while calling for fresh air
Sitting at desks
after winning a measure
from a major rupture
hoisted aloft frozen before
a rapt audience
Sinking into a painting
throughout the day
while admiring incised lines
appearing and disappearing
nearby without a deadline
In a million years earless
in a white bobbed wig
with a tangle of wires
not far behind
replying to queries
of language speakers
in flightless flocks
above a humped ox
In a wound up hubbub
that hums as cousins
of whistling ones
but remembering none...

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Some Kind of Wizardry

" Some Kind of Wizardry "

by Suzán Jiván

They're supposed to
but so seldom do
as strangely moving
with amazingly fake wings
obviously involved
in some kind of wizardry
in a spruce tree
rotating 180 degrees
while heaving and swaying
at the first stage
of experimental play
Ranging from the occasional
of note today holding babies
atop tables like latter-day
annunciations
as an oddly modern
paradox of found objects
Both brilliant and predictable
rich and inquisitive mixing
and matching abstractions
exactly as more animal than plant
with a sense of abandon...

Matching Abstractions

" Matching Abstractions "

by Suzán Jiván

They're supposed to
but so seldom do
as strangely moving
with amazingly fake wings
obviously involved
in some kind of wizardry
in a spruce tree
rotating 180 degrees
while heaving and swaying
at the first stage
of experimental play
Ranging from the occasional
of note today holding babies
atop tables like latter-day annunciations
as an oddly modern paradox
of found objects
Both brilliant and predictable
rich and inquisitive mixing
and matching abstractions
exactly as more animal than plant
with a sense of abandon...

A Hefty Preface

" A Hefty Preface "

by Suzán Jivân

Performed on YouTube
as, " The Idea Escalated "

The idea escalated
as mannequins of men
at the ready in rows of helmets
with a hefty preface
to a permanent perch
of unabashedly unflattering
wide angles of taxidermied animals
In social transactions
turning out as unsatisfactory
like tongue-in-cheek
under close scrutiny
as wax effigies smiling blissfully
Well-known ambivalence
as if in a stint
with perpetual helter-skelter
in oversized black bags
embarrassingly eager to please
like a golden retriever
Shrunken into a raft-sized pallet
taken to task as obviously opulent
with gold-flecked prominence
Identifying the "OMG"
of orthodoxy known
intimately as emerald green
gradually smoldering
all the livelong day on a bulky frame
With quickness and little finesse
if nothing else as something extra
uninvested in ourselves...

In the Presence

" In the Presence "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Suspension:
"Take One" & "Take Two"

A suspension
of first impressions
in the presence
of refreshing seconds
shown off as breadth
with remnants
of immense spectacles
Largely ignored
as sibilant mourners
just before
the wing of an all-
important altar
Depicting the shore
as line along water
like prisoners of war
sloshing after a tsunami
Recently seized
as a kind of thing
like a world-altering piece
acquired by a museum
and hung for all to see...

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Primitivistic

" Primitivistic "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Having Spent "

Having spent
the eventual
and lost
momentum
as members
with unsettled
objections
as specialists
in limited aspects
In residence
in flimsy digs
bearing
the fractious
family
gatherings
gasping
gigantic
distended
masses
of indoor
plants
With unflagging
sympathy fixed
on just one thing
artificially revered
by first-sight greetings
like late medieval
silent treatments
As puzzling
as crepuscular
bundles
of high culture
corrupted
by primitivistic
reclining women
in libidinous
film stills
splattered
on canvases
of horsehair
in aerobics
class...

Harkening Back

" Harkening Back "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Months Before "

Months before
teetering
while seeking
to rein in
the little-known
thwarted reports
in staccato
With a nod
to a star
as a chaotic
cosmic snarl
disappearing
into inevitability
with indignant
disbelief
Disguised
as bonhomie
adding sharply
to the top
of the heap
in stand-
up comedy
Never
wavering
from the deadpan
shattered
by huge laughs
laid-back
on laugh tracks
acceding
to demand
held
for ransom
With
the utmost
care
fancied
as
a man
with
the biggest
laugh
but
a telling
lapse
in slight
of hand
harkening
back
laid bare...

Friday, November 4, 2011

In Linguistic Form

" In Linguistic Form "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Thank the Rapid Expansion "

Thank the rapid
expansion
of, "Perhaps"
seemingly rankled
by, "Denied!"
like a venerable maestro
wielding a baton
of stringent measures
with deftness
What it took
were principal
artistic differences
of belittlement
selling as liquor
in partnership
with hard spirits
irregularly invaded
by the estranged
Unscathed
and unsustained
as, " implausible "
bourn
in linguistic form
long before
moral distinctions
of "right" or "wrong"
Predicated
along the way
over
days and days
of struggling
to stay
middle-aged
in the latest
forays
strongly based
in the day-to-day
as honey makers
with droning names...

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Twisting the Plot

" Twisting the Plot "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " A Grand Scale "

A grand scale
in wide release
with nothing modest
about being smarter
at the official start
involving
a blond-haired
constable
twisting the plot
Embracing
unashamedly
all in the name
of a peaceful
oasis regained
after betrayal
A mystically
fortified
stultifying
hybrid
witty
but
not
campy
while
waiting
for the chance
for sword
and fantasy
as long
and noisy
like a sort
of born-
again
Cutting
the engine
of lifelong
obsession
too young
to remember
under
our breath
Under
the pretense
of due
diligence
as sung
in select
motets
minus
instruments...

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Asleep at Your Feet

" Asleep at Your Feet "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as " A Typical Scene ",
"Take One", "Take Two"

A typical scene
groaning with queries
served with wine & beer
beneath a big-screen TV
with a mongrel asleep
at your feet
woofing while dreaming
Post-Op everythings
as endless critiques
of heavy-hitting bleeps
too meaty to succeed
as the intervening elite
Refurbished after teetering
on the brink of a gazebo
as the singsong frolic
of toddlers in stroller pushcarts
Almost too smart
cerebral and self-conscious
watching and watching
discreetly, mind you
like unlicensed
explosive devices
in military archives
virtually improvised...