" 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...