Last Hail Mary
I have a firm belief
that having flimsy morals
will only cause
a person to
fluctuate between
saint and sinner
thus resulting
in them only injecting
small amounts
of the opiate
of the steeple people
and so their faith
will be tested
by a series of gritty
secular sequences
of harsh reality
and they won’t know
what nation
or denomination
they belong to
which will result in
a bitter aftertaste
in the afterlife
and stained
pearly whites
at the pearly gates
when they half-smile
as death's dessert
is served up
by the ultimate
short-order-cook guy…
and it will be
heavenly homemade
pie in the sky
I have a firm belief
that having flimsy morals
will only cause
a person to
fluctuate between
saint and sinner
thus resulting
in them only injecting
small amounts
of the opiate
of the steeple people
and so their faith
will be tested
by a series of gritty
secular sequences
of harsh reality
and they won’t know
what nation
or denomination
they belong to
which will result in
a bitter aftertaste
in the afterlife
and stained
pearly whites
at the pearly gates
when they half-smile
as death's dessert
is served up
by the ultimate
short-order-cook guy…
and it will be
heavenly homemade
pie in the sky
Positively Negative
Kind or unkind
words
seem to be all
I can remember
be it the unexpected
compliment spoken
matter-of-factly
which had
the butterfly effect
of silencing the
negative self-talker
that never has my back
or the cruelty
dished out and disguised
as constructive
criticism
that has been
festering inside me
pestering me to
give up believing in
this hyper-sensitive
and frightfully-fragile
disorganized
organism
that only I
can call
me
Ivan Jenson, a celebrated Pop artist of New York City, moved
to Grand Rapids, Michigan where he experienced success as a published poet and
novelist. Ivan has over 600 poems published internationally, online
and in print, as well as a book of poems and four novels. Ivan Jenson’s new
novel Gypsies of New Rochelle, a comic family saga circa 1980, has been
published as a paperback and eBook by Michelkin Publishing.
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