A Hoax

" A Hoax "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Acknowledged
possibilities
with sinister hints
of vulnerability
reiterated
weekly
with viability
then evoked
full throat
as a hoax
seizing
the moment
as a black hole
in the Gulf
of Mexico.

Staged

" Staged "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Erasing decades
staged as plays
predicated
on the willing-
ness to trade
location-based
dastardly data
in exchange
for major
validation
and a mash-up
of pervasive
admiration
as a camp
extravaganza.

Coping Alone

" Coping Alone "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

This show
a survey
of the little-known
where even the most
are coping alone
on an open road.

Awakening

" Awakening "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Easily won
gifted and
ambitious
yet, risking
his legacy
in favor
of slavishly
awakening
his self-
righteous
even
messianic
side.

Some Day

" Some Day "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Glancing
alternately
at the door
and the floor
freely or
nearly free
from lone-wolf
tendencies
intending
to play
some day
after pausing
to read the label.

Toxic Crude

" Toxic Crude "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Lowering
the boom
as futile
efforts resume
to preclude
the infusion
of toxic crude.

X Marks the Spot

" X Marks the Spot "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Marking the start
whenever we want
not taken lightly
blunt, rough and tumble
fangs and other fluff
justa hunka hunka burnin' love.

Conjured

" Conjured "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Advisors to the stars
raise the bar with resolve
and the imponderable
as top kill begins
with inexplicable optimism
and solemnly-conjured chockablock.

The Minds

" The Minds "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

A meeting
of the minds
with unveiled designs
and notions civilized
with the conviction
of a tangential mix
hinting at lingering
with a prickly vibrancy
sharp and sticky
in intensity.

Keep Going

" Keep Going "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Unlike some
playing up
the touching
affable thugs
undone
and seldomly
beloved
winding up
as a startling
dénouement.

Sights Higher

" Sights Higher "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Aiming
sights
higher
at
some-
what
color-
less
sucked up
troubles
on touch
screens
intending
to blunt
souped up
late comers.

Crammed

" Crammed "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Said
to order
more
forces
crammed
into an audi-
torium
viewing
a fittingly
ugly symbol-
oozing crude.

Prominent

" Prominent "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Trying to get a fix in midair
as the tables turn
on prominent promises
mainly marketed
online
by heightened
creative types
eking out lives
as midwives.

All Consumed

" All Consumed "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

A punk pixie
with a shrewd strategy
first, famously aloof
next, too subdued
then, all consumed
by self-improvement.

Mash Up

Mash Up

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

A preposterous
mash up of bad
gathered together
as an ominous
en masse
opposed
to tabula rasa
denounced
early on.

Famously Gimmicky

" Famously Gimmicky "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Sliced off parts
of its facade
as a vast
conglomeration
of the aloof
famously
gimmicky
connected
dot-to-dot.

Conflicts of Interest

" Conflicts of Interest "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Facing
a rift
feverishly
collecting
conflicts
of interest
stretching
into in-
creasingly
inventive
frenzies
while
wrestling
with
the
real
thing:
ha-has
la-las
and
ta-das.

Imminence

" Imminence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Sifting through
declared victories
of toptier destinies
both costly and risky
with coincidence strewn
but precise use
of the imminence
of insidious gimlets
lest the point be missed.

Face-Saving

" Face-Saving "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Driven by instinct
poised for mainstream chic
in a new bastion for cool
making a calculated move
evoking mayhem
with a flippant overlay
swaggering
with a well-waxed mustache
throughout an emphatically
mannerist face-saving late phase.

Less Than Dead

" Less Than Dead "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Evil-twin
opposites
as part
of our
existence
less than dead
as lethal energy
of 1 percent
being subjected
to penalty
and sentenced
to unintended
consequence.

Pairs of Particles

" Pairs of Particles "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Viewed as a breakthrough move
with the harmonic daring of bebop
as matter dominance
produces pairs of particles
known as muons...
sort of fat electrons.

Ill Effects

" Ill Effects "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

A crude tube
ineffectually stems
the inestimable ill effects
of a gushing gulf wellhead
as BPVP Big Wigs
speak of the lethal leak
as a telling percentage
of risk assessment.

Raging

" Raging "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Makes for riveting
watching dotting
the red carpet
stars or not
with bold-
faced names
relegated
to maintaining
explaning away
plane delays
due to
a raging
volcano.

Glimpse

" Glimpse "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

A possible glimpse
of the invisible
along with the reckless
issuance of drilling permits
leading to a series
of catastrophes
replete with irreversibility.

Often Ignored Laws

" Often Ignored Laws "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Attacking
finger-
pointing
by oil
while
trying
to
tighten
the cordon
around
broad
often
ignored
laws.

A Healthy Patch

" A Healthy Patch "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Access to a healthy patch
in the form of the rhetorical
with steps to head off
less is more in primitive form.

Sighting

" Sighting "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Almost unfailingly punctual
arriving with a whisper
defying perpetually
decrepit stereotypes
more implicit than overt
with rather esoteric boyish grins
both sharpened and broadened sighting comely form
in favor of worthy function.

Solutions

" Solutions "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Expecting
consequent
re-election
for seemingly up-
beat sub-
committees
schmoozing
their way
through
ensuingly
amusing
crucial
solutions.

Doubts On Step

" Doubts on Step "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Doubts on step
outwardly acknowledging
the disconnect
between party members
with perverse incentives
too cozy for both.

Instituting

" Instituting "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Instituting
useless nooses
of antiquated booms
to contain huge
plumes of fossil fuel
as seen from the air
as giant scams
of the ill-prepared
to defend against
massive spills
of catastrophic slicks.

Warbles and Wails

" Warbles and Wails "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Counter measures
in a hotbed
of pertinent questions
ending traditional concepts
in imagined duets
of soaring scores
with warbles and wails.

Spurred

" Spurred "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Spurred on
by progress
still al in all
helicopters
thwocked
and life-
boats
darted
all in
response
to a
"negligible"
problem.

Cast

" Cast "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Calls for superstrong
hats off to the critic's cap
with the uneven impact
of newfangled gadgets
on operatic classics
ultimately cast.

Final Appeal

" Final Appeal "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Mixed feelings
bold strokes
needed
in a really big
staged scene
reverberating
loudly and clearly
in the final appeal.

Intelligence

" Intelligence "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Sought to determine
telegenic intelligence
and evidence
in a swing district
of uncertainty
with glossy
expressions of regret
trumpeting a cleanup.

Memoirs of Erotica

" Memoirs of Erotica "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Starting early
garnering motley
problem-solving
from non-profit
memoirs of erotica.

Dramatic Intent

" Dramatic Intent "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

With all due respect
stretches of minutiae
with dramatic intent
might actually
have been
commissioned
by a librettist.

Invisible

" Invisible "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Invisible
to the unassisted
presumably innocent
as anything writtten
and readily felt
in a flower bed.

Virtual Sweep

" Virtual Sweep "

by Suzán Jiván

for Linda Erlich

Torn between
rethinking
every piece
evenly, fairly
in a virtual sweep
of a single year.