" Against " by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

" Against " by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Against a wary FED full speed ahead yet tapping the breaks
while raising benchmark rates but expected to remain at 1%
being pre-empted by reigned-in investments not bargaining on heroine
posting new threats not knowing what the hell comes next
in the "Age of a Television President" impugning predecessors

as euphemisms for "poisoning the waters" as matters of course
tweeting scandalous tales of supposed facts both on purpose
and by accident needing to adapt like "Dirty Rats"
as scavenger's survival tactics after being hacked for bounty
via wiretapping reality series streaming freely
like data-driven honey traps and algorithmic interactions
brandishing unwanted facts and taking up the slack
during cool downs having been snagged by storage clouds

roused like slumbering animals lashing out
heating up buzzer-beating overall seeds
of selection committees week-by-week
leaching toxicity helped by lobbying
for public parks garnering "harmory"
extensively rethinked as states of emergency

re-emerging into safe spaces of green
for must-see genus and species
planting both feet with room to breathe
a la ubiquitous Plan Bs
surviving almost anything
with tricks up our sleeves
as anything-but-routine
like entire phylums of creatures
bafflingly transitioning
genuinely eery and all-too-real...