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...