"Carrying Off the New-Fangled"...

" Carrying Off the New-Fangled "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Carrying off the new-fangled
sometimes heart-breaking

taking place in a crammed studio space
for the un-named world's favorites

as yet to be claimed
by the often-mistaken

while abiding in unlikely places
like literary agents for the deranged

becoming bandwagon based
splintery spokes rotating

"na-na-na-na-na
ya can't catch me!"

"na-na-na-na na-na-na-na
hey-hey-hey good-bye"

"Away with you!
That's so nice of you!"

"Yoo-Hoo! Who do
that voo-do that you do so well?"

in slender velvety leather
as riveting spectacles

in losses of innocence
by overstaying welcomes...