“Set to Expire” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Set to Expire”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Set to expire pressing spies to link viruses
with revisionist history mixed after massive rallies
gathering in a complete panic under scandalous
pandemic mismanagement braying,
“Like, no way!” in a mule-headed display
sounded from an uncontained outbreak
on a “first-name-basis” for the highest of ranks
“chewed by the chatty” with small hands
chanting, “Put on your big boy pants!” ...

“Showing a Shrinking” by Suzán Jiván Mom & MoM-Mom Suzán

“Showing a Shrinking”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Showing a shrinking economy
identified in tiny viral droplets
asking, “ Who’s profiting by divide and conquer?”
struggling mightily to reconcile
over scorched rice tightness behind our eyes ...

“Common Ground in a Lockdown” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Common Ground in a Lockdown”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Common ground in a lockdown
like a posh hodgepodge
for hosting smooth-and-glossy
virtual stories seeking strong
endorsements from the “great out-of-doors”
in short order likened to coming of age
told at arm’s length loudly proclaiming,
“Arms’ distance sideways take!” ...

“Far From Over” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Far From Over”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Far from over
not so fast
repeated shaking
muscle pain
headache
loss of taste
flag waving
making false claims
stretching back
days-n-days
lives at stake
devastating death rates
predicted during second waves
lackadaisically anticipated as “blasé”
by a crass flag-waving administration...

“A One-Two Punch” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“A One-Two Punch”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

A one-two punch divisive and destructive
ripping up civility
torpedoing policies chest beating
during long-winded Corona briefings
airing lengthy grievances
seesawing on reopening the economy
finding few allies
while channel clicking each evening
blowing through aid’s notes in a monotone
baiting and browbeating the press
downplaying the pandemic
slow to absorb the scale
after suppressing virus death details
failed testing capacities
feeling baffled left in a shambles
having fallen through the cracks
in the midst of a fractious national calamity ...

“ Coming Under Scrutiny “ by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Coming Under Scrutiny”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Coming under scrutiny
serving buffalo wings in public
transferred to ICE custody
avoiding screenings
as scripts for loss and mourning
feeling deeply in need of herd immunity
abolishing flogging
in a desperate search for antibodies
ingesting cleaning products
around the clock ...

“No One Is Sure” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“No One Is Sure”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

No one is sure
how to place the curb
on pushing sham cures
demanding greater scrutiny
moods darkening
shattering worlds
tiptoeing around in masks
posting silly parodies
of untold distancing
proclaiming, “Take it from me!”
displaying taking nude selfies
right from the beginning
of mission creep ...

“Reopening” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Reopening”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Reopening wider exposures
to rabbit holes “ 2 point 0 “
targeting the older “Thou, for one”
as “word-of-mouth-go-round”
horned frog allemandes
as mascots hop into Zoom parties ...

“Worth Less Than Nothing” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Worth Less Than Nothing”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Worth less than nothing
wearing garbage bags as protection
undetected super-spreaders
overwhelmed nursing centers
scattershot remedies covert messages
fomented dissent discovery of early deaths
shuttered processing plants asking,
“How can this happen?!”
with little time to react
to disastrous dysfunctionality
being tested at random ...

“A Global Corona Contagion” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“A Global Corona Contagion”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

A global corona contagion
in grave danger
from immunological naïveté
with no real way
of gauging complacency
sheltering in place ...

“Sawtoothed Savagery” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“Sawtoothed Savagery”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

Sawtoothed savagery
alive then dying
outstripped medical supplies
mind-bending death spikes
hell bent on writing as a rite
while catching sight
of slowly being blinded
to, “True to life” ...

“The Results Are Off”

“The Results Are Off”

by Suzán Jiván Mom
& Mom-Mom Suzán

The results are off
falling far short
in a paranoiac case in point
fomenting Infowars
of outsized proportion
from disproportionately
irrational national platforms
of tragic unfairness gone mad,
“Where a nuthatch hatches
dog straps with triangular sails
in an airport for a bull or for a bear
put on a strict weight watcher’s plan
still hinting at both halves
of a gargantuan collapse” ...

“The Muddying”

“The Muddying”

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

The muddying
of culpability
in large numbers
like a duffer’s
missed putts
scored as multiple
mulligans
in coverups
having swung
an angled club
with an abrupt uppercut
after whiffing the cup
and chipping into the rough ...