Beneath a Midnight Sky

 “Usually Known for Infighting” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Usually known for infighting  now becoming crystallized  into largely united by combining  courage with deviance  and forging strong military alliances  synchronized in wartime  galvanized into victorious fighting …

“Making a Point” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Making a point from under rubble  in a dry and sober language  describing fate like bodies crushed by tanks  grasping at meaning while pushing back  at a world that never actually happened  as a nonsensical account of a once glorious past being centralized  by sharp propaganda …

 “Cynically Pretending” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Cynically pretending victory  indiscriminately shelling civilians  torturing prisoners forced to live under strenuous conditions  while officials gather horrific statistics  investigating barbaric capture campaigns  uncovering mass graves as a tabulation of an unprovoked invasion …

 “A Notable Risk” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  A notable risk from icons of conflict  trying to defy the odds by holding on  to bigger and larger arsenals of arms  as an escalatory consequence  of facing growing threats  to the world we once made together  becoming void of connection  other than that of a heavy weapon …

 “Getting Underway” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Getting underway here’s the latest  land based sea based heard air raids  harsh sanctions rosy claims  common refrains large bomb craters  coming under occupation  stuck in the Dark Ages dividing the faithful  versus offering painstaking affirmation mixing spilled blood with fallen rain …

 “Appearing to Be Massing”  by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Appearing to be massing  profound impacts of casualties as atrocities  exuded irrepressibly as grief and worry  like naming black cats with white feed  while adding to the team, so to speak …

 “The Word on the Street Is a Giant Z” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  The word on the street is a giant “Z”/after looking long and hard/into lines and lines of stark pine boxes/filled with alarming states of complete shock/due to the debacle’s of semi-conscious half swastikas …

 “Think Tanks and Software” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán  Think tanks and software  going to war with afterthoughts  along with powerful surveillance apps putting faces to names verifying crimes identifying the dead and the alive  mining megabytes from social media sites  minus privacy and over site …