At Once Romantic & Commonsensical

" At Once Romantic
and Commonsensical "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

At once romantic
and commonsensical
remaining essentially
locked in sterile
delinquency
with troubling greetings
punctuated
by a dangling shard
of alarm
as part of the problem
of subplots
in an anonymous
peer review
Not to be confused
as a curtain raiser
fairing
only slightly better
than wishing
in vain
for a paper airplane
to fly
somewhere over
the rainbow
with puns
and wordplay
by showing off
anyway
that goes
without saying
getting
carried away
for the most
part
all for the
asking
by taking
a bubble
bath
Sure to emerge
visible
and palpable
with the feel
of gravel
as just one
more habit
on a carefully
constructed
path
gradually
revealing
a view
of a square
gathering
momentum
in a romantic
landscape
of volcanic
sand
and the hiss
of an aerosol
can...