" Grim "...

" Grim " by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Grim tolls battles narrow rumbling flattening homes
body counts growing pinned-down civilians with famine risks
made by targeting committees being given more authority
via art therapy for veterans as traumatized service members

accused of meddling in elections having been accidentally swept
up in incidentally secret service members minus oversight
street fighting like muck and reptiles think-tank style
throughout the by-and-by outright like a statue of a child
holding fliers dressed just right during de-militarized drone strokes

isotopes colliding spinning turbines at construction sites
of sun and hydrogen plagued by design and impending deadlines
unfurling straight up towards the sky short of stature stout of heart
struck by solar power poised over anthers grasping hands
picking up a bong for a critical project while splitting atoms
by independent analysis hazards of reactors

commissioned multinationally in fits and starts
managing problems due to trauma
in unsparing reports of haunting fallout
after failing to rally support for, "el condor pasa"

unlikely bonds of absurdist drama reading graphic novels
chugging prop-wine in large-scale revivals
only seen during half time while sitting on risers
tagged, "next in line" like a lion's prey in strips of bacon
as readymades with generic names never standing completely straight...