With a Deadpan Smirk

" With a Deadpan Smirk "

by Suzán Jiván

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With a deadpan smirk
increasing nerve
rattling sardonic gags
and antagonistic shtick
as a study in bliss
while still a bit gimpy
and deliberately oblivious
lost in a blizzard
after beginning to fizzle
with acidic witticisms
and head-spinning
verbal artillery
like scrolls of poetry
unrolling in rococo
willed into existence
nimbly and exquisitely
as funnily familiar
In high-rise buildings
defined by giant slides
corkscrewing confusingly
hailed at amusement
when ejecting viewers
for wearing birthday suits
still damp, stinging
and dazed, but grinning
after a wicked twist
with the privileged
devised as brilliant
when booked for overnights
as bored, violated and cranky
like an emulation
of sensory deprivation
becoming susceptible to strains
of mayhem in a meditative state
Meticulously painted
as an indication of gravitating
to the strange and pagan
as famously deranged
becoming eerily silent
while reading, " Keep to the Right " ...