Ivan Jenson - Two Poems

Unadulterated Facts

 

I am discontinuing 

my subscription

to the periodic 

delivery of glossy

fleshy fantasy

and I am instead

facing full frontal

reality 

cellulite and all

and I am no longer

photo shopping

around for 

doctored 

perfection

instead

I am accepting 

the crow's feet

of nature

and the slow

sag of time

and I hope 

you too will

accept my

body

mass 

index

and love me

like 

good 

cholesterol 

 

 

 

Writing on the Wall

 

I once saw 

a numerological 

configuration

which mathematically

explained 

the physics of 

the physical feeling

one gets with 

psychic pain

and offered

multiple solutions

to the inherent 

problem of 

the

singular 

human entity 

when juxtaposed

against the 

multiplicity

of others

and I was going 

to take a cellphone

shot of that 

blackboard

and its chalkboard

revelation 

but the battery 

was dead

and when 

I came back 

to that room of 

higher learning

it was gone

and was replaced

by a basic recipe 

for apple pie

which I later

came to realize

was just

as profound 

an answer

for the

lonely 

hungry  

soul

Ivan Jenson has written two novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, both of which illustrate the creative and often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson's poetry is widely published (with over 450 poems published in the US, UK and Europe) in a variety of literary media. Ivan is also an accomplished fine artist. His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Ivan Jenson's website is: www.IvanJenson.com