“Anxious”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mon-Mom Suzán
Anxious
pushing through challenges
coursing to surpass
150 million votes for the first time
during a surging virus
threatening to destroy our sense of time
isolation monotony chronic stress
feeling a passive sense of forward progression
days bleeding into weeks blurring boundaries...
“Increasingly Untethered”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Increasingly untethered obvious nonsense
ludicrous fabrications lashing out wildly
with totalitarian mindsets attempting
to scare voters about bad things
that aren’t happening while losing out standing
meekly asking, “ Will truth prevail in the days after?”
“Lackadaisical Cruelty”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Lackadaisical cruelty
selfish cupidity
protected elites
pointed digs
partisan splits
victims of disease
at “warp-speed” ...
“The Red Mirage-The Blue Shift”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
The red mirage-the blue shift
52 Yeas - 48 Nays Senatorial votes
ceremonies being blatantly staged in the dead-of-night for a confirmed lifetime court justice right hand raised fingers splayed left hand lying flat on an upside-down primer at The White House ...
“Ripped from History”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Ripped from history anarchic power and influence
giving us, “the willies” hospitals reaching their limits
in spite of magical thinking and extreme, “what ifs“
as immediate, “givens” with nothing, “off-limits”
resulting in tumbling into digged
ditches “willy-nilly” ...
“Raising New Questions”
by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Raising new questions
of anti-venom contests
stumping in a pandemic
facing existential threats
of a death-dealing
incumbent president
voters’ lament,
“Gimme Shelter” ...
“Fits of Magical Thinking”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Fits of magical thinking
leading to relentless upheaval
self congratulation shifting blame
leveraging personal gain
raising unsubstantiated claims late in the game ...
“Narrow and Difficult”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Narrow and difficult 11th hour disruptions
unpopular incumbents candidates stumbling
on the stump being out-hustled getting lit up
by an out-to-lunch huckster over due for punishment
being confronted by a Hydra of troubles
becoming zombified adults consumed by worry ...
“Can’t Help Whispering”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Can’t help whispering hoping for a landslide victory
fearing overconfidence or overreach
coming closer to punditry shifting of thinking
doing back flips after an outright win
counting the wide-eyed stares having captured
palpable commonality warding off electoral calamity
forestalling democratic collapse ...
“Tossing Table Salt”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Tossing table salt knocking on wood fingers crossed superstitious sorts witchcraft sorcery credulity fallacy
touching lockets for luck a Cyclops has just one rather than a twosome never say, “Happy Birthday”
too early whistling indoors invites evil summoning demons
wishing death upon people never sleeping with your head to the west gifting yellow
flowers is never a nice gesture as friends are cursed with infidelity
wearing wedding bells on dresses ...
“ Fearing a ‘Blood Bath’ “
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Fearing a ‘Blood Bath’ taking a final stand
against warped fantasies lies brutality incitement
as a “BOGUS HOCUS POCUS POTUS”
faces indictment due to the inhumane violent crime
of claiming a pliant virus will make a magical
disappearing act with an unmasked cavalier abandon...
“Secret Meetings”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Secret meetings stocks teetering
Covid-19 climbing toward a third peak
“Little Shop: Big Relief “ man-eating
under quarantine @ the Weathervane Theater
in the mountains of New Hampshire
far from the aerosols of singing
laden with leaf peepers ...
“Running Roughshod ”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Running roughshod across knotted racial yarns
having yielded chaos directly in response
to, “Am not!” charging “dot dot dot”
campaigning over overarching safe harbors
throughout a grueling stumping process
including intolerable Zoombombed
comments, “Go pick your cotton!” ...
“Capturing”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Capturing consequential events hearings protests
overall nonsense of refusing to reveal tests
as tellingly blatant exceptions
for an incumbent president
feeling powerful at packed rallies
POTUS’s voice sounding scratchy as no small matter
still seeking adulation from manic fans
openly chanting into an alternate reality of the ghastly...
“Stark Departures”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Stark departures misrepresented comments
of painted ideologues blindly partisan
red-hot zealots seeking compromise
as, “Out of the question!” heavily in debt
pictured like ripened kinds of cherries
rendered like collective red devils...
“Appearing Manly”
by Suzán Jivan Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Appearing manly refusing to wear a mask
as a threat to masculinity hiding the fear
of seeming weak practicing wacky
pandemic actions draped in flags
channeling power as symptomatic
knee-jerk reactions and frazzled disappearing acts ...
“A Growing Sense of Dread”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
A growing sense of dread
in past present and future tense
failing to contain the spread
blocking requirements of wearing masks
carrying the mantle of erratic strategies
fighting tooth-and-nail
bearing aggressive electoral tactics
declaring,”Go to the polls and watch carefully!”
while trailing nationally
and assaulting mail-in balloting
holding reckless rallies
broadcasting tearing off masks
talking, “Smack!” ...
“Bristling with Scattershot”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Bristling with scattershot
dismissing the virus again and again
rippling across the Sun Belt
presidents in deep distress
VP’s complicity deemed, “chilling”
and arguably even more evil
while lying and dodging
with silverhaired gladhanding civility
repeatedly denying involvement
responding diabolically,
“Golly gosh darn - I haven’t the foggiest!” ...
“In Plain Defiance”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
In plain defiance presiding over catastrophic failures
and false narratives having to ban political ads
on social platforms after hitting rough patches
while asking, “Is the Electoral College
democratic or patently unfair?”
declaring, “It’s a jerry-rigged ‘It’ factor!”
like the incumbent “45” as a hazmatted example ...
“Rearranging Facts”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Rearranging facts as a maniac pattern
on potent cocktails of viral affairs
obsessed with denial
donning lengthy neckties
in avoidance of Science
fumigating The White House
with potent sanitizers ...
“Infuriating”
by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán
Infuriating unchastened
negations of contact tracing
in an outbreak of high-stakes
White Houses gone viral
while performing figure eights
and going to baroque lengths
despite a contagion of lives claimed ...
“Getting Cagey on Questions”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Getting cagey on questions of testing
saying little about expert steps of prevention
having taken erroneous measures
regarding health threats as the president
faces off with the genuine peril
and lethal consequences
of following off-the-wall concepts
equated with the playing of dicey board games
like Monopoly and Yahtzee ...
“Making Hay”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Making hay harvesting false information
occasion upon occasion campaigning
while traipsing with slang phrases
warranting an “X”, say as a makeover
result, maybe, made with reservations
aka “The Plague” ...
“There’s Just No Getting Around It”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
There’s just no getting around it
having few, if any, close contacts
distancing, masking, washing hands
noses in the air laughing at a cartoon character
with a noted football prank ...
“Vandalizing Principles”
by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán
Vandalizing principles looking and listening
to stimulus stymieing and upended elections
as a self-centered petulant hector of a president
undermines elections while supportive supremacists
simultaneously yell, “We will kill you!” in a nutshell...
