" Who? "

" Who?"

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Who would be or not be
blackend by a bright white
nightmare of silence
steeped deeply in denials?

all with broad smiles by private eyes
piloted by plaintive cries of pied pipers
heard as slender, vertical strands of light
seen as supertitles by our actual eyes

while seeking advice imprecisely acquired
via neuron firings from flight to fight
choosing two lives like ticks and lice
of flesh and desire recently wilded in disguise
feeling preoccupied in double time
losing our minds taken in stride...