Saturday, October 31, 2020

“Anxious”

 “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...

Friday, October 30, 2020

“Increasingly Untethered”

 “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?”


Thursday, October 29, 2020

“Lackadaisical Cruelty”

 “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” ...

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

“The Red Mirage-The Blue Shift”

 “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 ...


Monday, October 26, 2020

“Ripped from History”

 “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” ...


Sunday, October 25, 2020

“Raising New Questions”

 “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” ...


Friday, October 23, 2020

“Fits of Magical Thinking”

 “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 ...

Thursday, October 22, 2020

“Narrow and Difficult”

 “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 ...




Wednesday, October 21, 2020

“Can’t Help Whispering”

 “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 ...

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

“Tossing Table Salt”

 “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 ...

Saturday, October 17, 2020

“ Fearing ‘Blood Bath’ “

 “ 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...

Thursday, October 15, 2020

“Secret Meetings”

 “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 ... 

  


Wednesday, October 14, 2020

“Running Roughshod”

 “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!” ...

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

“Capturing”

 “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...


Monday, October 12, 2020

“Stark Departures”

 “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...

 

Sunday, October 11, 2020

“Appearing Manly”

 “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 ...

Saturday, October 10, 2020

“A Growing Sense of Dread”

 “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!” ...



Friday, October 9, 2020

“Bristling with Scattershot”

 “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!” ...

Thursday, October 8, 2020

“In Plain Defiance”

 “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 ...

 


 


Wednesday, October 7, 2020

“Rearranging Facts”

 “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 ...

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

“Infuriating”

 “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 ...

Monday, October 5, 2020

“Getting Cagey on Questions”

 “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 ...

Sunday, October 4, 2020

“Making Hay”

 “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” ...


Saturday, October 3, 2020

“There’s Just No Getting Around It”

 “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 ...

Thursday, October 1, 2020

“Vandalizing Principles”

 “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...