Sweeping generalities
(under the table)
Just because
everything
is falling together
doesn’t mean
it isn’t falling
and just because
everything
is coming together
doesn't mean
it can’t come apart
so I am going
to go through with
my obligatory
responsibilities
with white trash
panache
and allow myself
to be midwifed
into mid-life
and then
I will party
crash the pearly
gates
with my
never-said-I-was-a-saint
VIP pass
which I stole
from Paul
to give to
Peter
- Ivan Jenson 2011
Undercurrents
The small chill
that runs up one’s back
and blows through
the stark naked branches
of these trees in the
boroughs
where the bread winner
lives
and the toaster burns
the bread
his wife planned to
sweeten with jelly
as the kids rush
to the bus like
a school of little
kisses and under
their winter caps
a list of secret wishes
to grow up and out
of the house with
the broken dishes
and those angry exchanges
about Daddy
and the pretty sitter
or mom’s lost dream
of being an archaeologist
where she might have
uncovered the happiness
she has lost
like an Aztec treasure
- Ivan Jenson 2011
Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in
America, and Interview magazine. His art
has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared
in Word Riot, Zygote in my
Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo, Poetry Super
Highway, Mad Swirl, Alternative Reel Poets Corner, Underground Voices Magazine,
Blazevox, and many other magazines,
online and in print. Dead
Artist, a novel by Ivan Jenson is
available at Amazon.com in paperback and as an eBook for
the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and
on Google's eBookStore.
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