Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Otherwise Gaudy Good Times

" Otherwise Gaudy Good Times "

by Suzán Jiván

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

Becoming funny and weird and sloppy
when thrown for a loop
by mishandled duties
in narrow green rooms
of the totally natural
emptied out
as paradigms
of unhappiness
like fried ants
in disparate
fairy tales
as fractured
characters
mismatched
casts
With the rhetorical tic
of a 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 topmost 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 a broader 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 a musk mallow
And hiding out
in 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...

Practically in One's Face

" Practically in One's Face "

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 Legendary Hellbenders

" Like Legendary Hellbenders "

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, ragged and masked
with a miasmic camphor
Like extra hours
for taxidermied animals
stacked one upon the other
on their favorite basking log
as a fête gallante
of contemporary art
with greatly enlarged heads
as early nesters
Like legendary Hellbenders
facing hordes of predators
almost nothing with 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 carved cuttlefish 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...

Friday, November 25, 2011

As Arias Earmarked

" As Arias Earmarked "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " On a Vibraphone
on Saturday Night "

On a vibraphone
on Saturday Night
played on the same spot
as collaborative art
for concerts
of the not-so-hard
as arias earmarked
as melancholic
when composed
as stand-alone
fading drones
changing in exposure
in overtures
played over
the long-haul
as encores
of masterful joy
Usually green beneath
when freed from the mud
by using your feet
in extreme need
low and creeping
with an acrid biting quality
turning pink in spring
Unlike anything
which is to say
as stubby as a spadix
tapering
to a tight cluster
like an unpalatable
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
do not eat raw
or boiled on long
leaf stalks
with thick joints
as opposed
to a cautionary
dogbane
or common
nightshade
Or perhaps
as Bastard
Toadflax
attached singly
pale underneath
crowned by sepals
small, green and sweet
hairless and quickly branching
along sandy shores
toothless, or nearly so
with showy lobes
and deep groans
from lame jokes
becoming pigeon-holed
as a Texas Toad
burying itself
when threatened
as a consequence
of specimen collecting
with a sharp edge
on a cranial crest
creating a depression
returning to the terrestrial
with a poorly-defined
black stripe...

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Free-Spirited Improvisation

" Free-Spirited Improvisation "

by Suzán Jiván

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 by 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
In all accordings graciously seen
above the waste with enablement
to perform the sacred
as free-spirited improvisation
in the upper ranges...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Bracing for Covert Saviors

" Bracing for Covert Saviors "

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
of nibbling on chips
as a cartoonish patrician
in response to a mêlange
of mixed feelings
from shredded egos
an 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
discarding a diamond
from the dummy
running clubs
with a high trump
and declared 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
re-enacted 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 over-
hanging branch
with an intimate scale
and carefree abandon...

Monday, November 21, 2011

Tending to Fix the Bitter

" Tending to Fix the Bitter "

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 fur opposed to open roads
with hips held on the bush
through winter in bristly thickets
covered with sticky reddish hairs
in sandy pastures
Coarse species forming dense clumps
of conspicuously wrinkled leaves
large, deep rose to white
in survival along dry
open roadsides
Large arching grey-green
stout and downy
with unopened flowers
lacking milky sap upland...

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Unfamiliar Dimensions

" Unfamiliar Dimensions "

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 even when saying
dark things triumphantly
by 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 to carved
bony objects
steeped in red
across a predatory marital bed
stretched across a frenzied center
of cryogenic stealth
like a naysaying mindset
As 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
exerpted from a longer version
with a close-up showing
a handful of loans
nailed in only two takes
late into 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 with 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...

A Burgeoning Ethos

" A Burgeoning Ethos "

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
as flattened captives
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

New-Fangled Shrewdness

" New-Fangled Shrewdness "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Acute and Ardent "

Acute and ardent
supposed to have shown
new-fanged shrewdness
becoming pretty sure of grandeur
by unfurling under a curl
and turning furiously
into judge and jury for rulings
on innocence and guilt
As overlapping granular scales
with dark triangular patches
some black, some blue
like cross bands in arid
and semi-arid lands
with distinctly creviced females
and blandly barred bars
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 morning
eyes paling in the damp...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sirens and Moles

" Sirens and Moles "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Northern Temperate Zones "

Northern temperate zones
like sirens and moles
with distinct body regions
capped with packets of sperm
displayed in wide-ranging
layers of jellylike eggs
lost during transformation
yelping when captured
and squirming vigorously
when handled
Nestling in winter waiting for spring
in sheltered cavities emitting clicks
after wrestling in opportunistic litter
threatened by red underbellies
and swelling vents in defense December through May cave
dwelling lined with fleshy projections
on stream beds of detritus poorly known as predacious to incubating eggs tipped with black horny layers
Swept into the water by heavy rains
bypassing the tadpole stage
of yellowish flecks
over clear heads and necks
along with conspicuous tympanums
of warm moist skin hatching
into tail-wagging species
in swiftly flowing streams
Erupting like bubbles in tar pits
of hardship and foul-mouthed grit
given heady physicality
like gliding down an 80-foot wave
while dilating the entire length...

Joyful Abandon

" Joyful Abandon "

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 a sensual pool
of a drenching monsoon
In the first two movements
principle and subsidiary
as the case with a penchant
for a frenzied tenth degree
when peppered with flecks
snout-to-vent
Opened and closed
as top-grossing 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

A Recent Self-Release

" A Recent Self-Release "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Featuring the Accomplished "

Featuring the accomplished
as a 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 tricking the mind
in front of each eye
stymying dilation
plus befuddling
the tongue
When tethered
together
with momentum
while
hanging our heads
as a final
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...

Bo-ho Chic Prowess

" Bo-ho Chic Prowess "

by Suzán Jiván

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

A repurposed psych-pop hit
with bo-ho chic prowess
stuffed with marquee pop
Scottish post-rockers
pacing 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
As burnt-caramel 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

Making Gains

" Making Gains "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Notably Strong Last Week "

Notably strong 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
from a dog's dish
and prancing madly
at random or by accident...

The Most Interesting Character

" The Most Interesting Character "

by Suzán Jiván

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

If this cliché is accurate
as the most interesting character
with similarities to then and now
revisited by previously unique ideas
becoming humdrum
when borrowed from others
as burdensome
as phantom nones
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

With a Likeness to Headlines

" With a Likeness to Headlines "

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

Mirrors of the Mercurial

" Mirrors of the Mercurial "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " All Got Together "

All got together
as an overamplification
of familial fragments
in sturm and drang
As distinctive talents
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

Passions Still

" Passions Still "

by Suzán Jiván

Not quite farcical offering another gloss
over a salsa and merengue cohort
put off by daring cast calls
to the complete annoyance
of purportedly loyal audiences
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...

Fueling the Jukebox

" Fueling the Jukebox "

by Suzán Jiván

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

Chattering Objects

" Chattering Objects "

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 the rest
with the exception
of a wrenchingly placid set
after a crash landing
with a con man
in a failing cast
opening last
with spent passion
and avarice...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Being in the Know

" Being in the Know "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " There Is No Next "

There us 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 tomrrows
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

For Anyone Interested

" For Anyone Interested "

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 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
soaring as free-spirited mimics
invariably with antipathy
and added instability
Executed in gridded order
all for a cause of enforced symmetry
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...

Accessorized by a Turret

" Accessorized by a Turret "

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 in 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
by acquired
states of mind
before
your very eyes
Anguished cries
of, " venal! ",
" ugly! ",
and " weird! "
as satiric
cartoonish boobies
accompanied by brutes
rummaging through
the stupefying refuse
of unctuous love
run asunder...

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Tatwax Aftercare

" Tatwax Aftercare "

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 an upscale
black male
in flashbacks
of bedazzlement
Flipping out
as swoon-worthy
tried and true
fuzzbox funk
winding up
as tweeted niceties
pillaging for freebies
Like a pickpocketed wallet
in a blockbuster rostrum
hailing the 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 flashy
pretty spectacular
Understood exactly
effortlessly carrying
a gaggle of laughs
way back
as a fitness fanatic
like the who, what
when and why
of backstabbing
in a high-tech class
of anti-establishment...

In a Once-in-a-lifetime

" In a Once-in-a-lifetime "

by Suzán Jiván


Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Haunting Litheness "

With a haunting litheness
in a once-in-a-lifetime
sous bite recreated nightly
right around midnight
among the emptied out, "Now!"
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 a 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

Requiring Repeated Viewings

" Requiring Repeated Viewings "

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 moody 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 on 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...

As Far As Anyone

" As Far As Anyone "

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
into the criteria
as the opposition
backing the pact
as less plastic
and more trans-
parent
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
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

With a Sense of Abandon

" With a Sense of Abandon "

by Suzán Jiván

They're supposed to
but so seldom do
as strangely moving
with amazingly fake wings
obviously involved
in some jobs 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
as more animal than plant
with a sense of abandon...

At the Ready

" At the Ready "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " The Idea Escalated "

The idea escalated
as mannequins of men
stood at the ready
in rows of helmets
with a hefty preface
to a permanent perch
on unabashedly
unflattering wide angles
of taxidermied animals
In social interactions
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 trash bags
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...

First Impressions

" First Impressions "

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 a 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

Objections as Specialists

" Objections as Specialists "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Showy Cosmos:
Objections as Specialists "

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 an unflagging
sympathy fixed
on just one thing
artificially revered
by first-sight greetings
like a late medieval
silent treatment
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...

Teetering While Seeking

" Teetering While Seeking "

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 demands
held for ransom
With the utmost care
fancied as a man
with the biggest laugh
but a telling lapse
in slight of hand laid bare...

Friday, November 4, 2011

Seemingly Rankled

" Seemingly Rankled "

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 strident 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 distortions
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

A Blond-Haired Constable

" A Blond-Haired Constable "

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 fir 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

Woofing While Dreaming

" Woofing While Dreaming "

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-lifting bleeps
too meaty to succeed
as 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...