Goes Without Saying

" Goes Without Saying "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "

At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining essentially
locked in sterile delinquency
with troubling greetings
punctuated by a dangling shard
of alarm as a problem
of subplots in an anonymous
peer review not to be confused
as a curtain raiser fairing
only slightly better than wishing on vain
for a paper airplane to fly someday
over the rainbow with puns & wordplay
by showing off anyway
that gores without saying
and getting carried away
all for the asking in a bubble bath
Sure to emerge visible and palpable
with the feel of gravel
as just one more habit
on a carefully constructed path
gradually revealing a view of a square
gathering momentum in a romantic
landscape of volcanic sand
with the hiss of an aerosol can...