" Familial Footage "...

" Familial Footage "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Familial footage
running backwards
passing disasters
panning over
stilted images

all but oblivious
to cheap thrills
grasping big ideas
as mesmerizing
teasers gone missing

jolted by shtick
and campy whisperings
savagely scrambled
without revealing
exactly what's happening

no matter attend master
classes held along rambling
paths endowed with distractions
and interactive gravity

overridden derisively
revealed as, "conceit"
via brooding chords
of form and technique

bereft--left in peril
tellingly sleeping
in self-defense
creating compelling
special effects

all going off in your heads
stressing, "Choose your weapons!"
ending in getting extended life sentences...