"First Strike"..,

" First Strike "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

First strike peculiar
purple lights
earnestly revived
during jittery times

while boldly rewriting
nursery rhymes
with vim & style

watching the rent
climbing
like sound-effected
maestros
conducting folk revivals
packed
with songwriters'
synthesizers
fiercely unwinding
outrageous
highs

as heat rises
mostly as grim
reminders
of plexiglass
skylights
at nighttimes'
political climes

prodding
gloved fingers
poking
wooden sticks
into hyper-
mobility
from misty
team leaders

hawking not-really
throbbing energies
within municipal museums
of smock-wearing activities
in lesser-known galleries

as red-spotted spiders
spin sticky designs
over red-caped crusaders
calculatingly swaying
and baying, "Olés"...

" All the News "...

" All the News "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

"All the News that Fits "versus
"All the News That's Fit to Print"
while tolerance may be fraying
occupiers saying they'll stay
on the "The Doomsday Glacier"
asking, "Can we still kill on stage
then be sent on our way
into a Putple Rain outtake?"

Getting tough
on pain infinitely
more dangerous
chipping away
at the little-insane
devilish faces
ably displaying rage
dissing bad behavior
badass remains
inaudible aches...

" Pleading The Fifth "...

" Pleading The Fifth "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Pleading The Fifth
kickstarted
by incriminating
non-profits
of the unpopular:
"Roger Wilco
Over and Out!"

while serving
on global councils
with insistent pingings
from mean streets
without a grand strategy
of " Keeping your friends close
and your enemies closer"

being hung
above couches
and deliberately
displayed
on coffee tables
recently divorced
by big supporters
being voided
of wall space

while mimicking
War Games
as a way of life
streamed live
pulled back tightly
via blood-tinted-non-fiction
deemed "Resiliency"
wrapped in linen rhemes
and tree sap replete
with mental intensities

borne of snake-
charming fantasies
while dreaming
of recapping
and staining of its teeth
a la control freaks

waging campaigns
of extreme flattery
living off the fat of the land
illicitly caught red-handed
white as a sheet and blue as can be...