Unrolling in Rococo

" Unrolling in Rococo "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " With a Deadpan Smirk "

With a deadpan
smirk
increasingly nerve-
rattling
as sardonic
gags
and antagonistic
shtick
as a study in
bliss
while still a bit
gimpy
and deliberately
oblivious
lost in a blizzard
after beginning
to fizzle
with acidic
witticisms
and head-spinning
verbal artillery
like scrolls of poetry
unrolling in rococo
willed into existence
nimbly and exquisitely
as funnily familiar
In high-rise buildings
defined by giant slides
corkscrewing confusedly
hailed as amusement
when ejecting viewers
for wearing birthday suits
still damp, stinging
and dazed, but grinning
after a wicked twist
with the privileged
devised as brilliant
when booked overnights
as bored, violated
and cranky
like an emulation
of sensory deprivation
becoming suseptible
to strains of mayhem
while in a meditative state
Meticulously painted
as an indication of gravitating
to the strange and pagan
as famously deranged
becoming eerily silent
while reading, " Keep to the Right " ...