I will admit I have
been snooping around
and peeking at your
journals
you have
incredible
secrets and
handwriting
and I have been
listening in on your
conversations
you have quite
a few hilarious,
suspicious friends
I have been observing
your schedule
and you seem
to have some mundane
and circumspect errands
and after passing through
the password of
your computer
I realize you are
quite simply
a complex amalgamation
of party girl paradoxes
and an ever so slightly
untrustworthy trust fund
fun loving female
who is unfortunately in love
with me
an FBI wannabe
otherwise known as
a real jerk
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. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for Commonline magazine. Ivan Jenson’s debut novel Dead Artist is now available as a paperback and on Amazon Kindle and Nook. His next novel a psychological thriller entitled Seeing Soriah is due to be published this year by Hen House Press New York.
What a curious shape all this makes! I slid down the pole of poetry to arrive at a thick block of success and advertising ( nothing wrong with that). As a poem it doesn’t work. This is gut instinct – I’ll firm up a reason.