One-percenter Let me decide for myself if success is as empty as they say and I will let you know if dating a Swedish model in the French Riviera is vapid and will rapidly lead to my soul's decay and when my pretty bank teller sees my current balance and her pupils start dilating don't tell me this won't feel like a spiritual awakening because I have been chasing that star-studded gold-leafed, sugar-coated gift-wrapped, jackpot since I was old enough to watch the Beverly Hillbillies on TV so don't you even try to stop me from sipping on some good ol' Texas tea Lonesome Dove I don't share my life with one particular person in the traditional sense instead I have built an amazingly effective invisible fence that keeps my dogged pride from running away from this private property and possibly getting run over and once in a great while I let in the unexpected visitor who happens to be in the area and just thought they'd stop on by and we have cookies and coffee and when they leave I wave goodbye as their car pulls out of the drive while holding my caged heart yet it somehow escapes like a parakeet into the skies and that's when I remember that time flies Spring Cleaning I still saved everything you gave me and I have stored all that nothingness in an empty room in the attic of my consciousness next to undeveloped negatives of what could have been positive if only you could have lived up to the hype of being what I wanted so much but can now live without I guess that is what dandruff and dust is all about Hook Up It's official this whole thing is superficial and based solely on mutual distraction from emotional depth or even worse spiritual meaning because sometimes it's fun to downgrade expectations and indulge in soft-core consensual conversation consisting of nonintellectual innuendo and zero love so tomorrow don't even wait for my text instead when you think of me just whisper the word "next" The Big Comeback I was once beautiful respected far and wide the toast of the town considered the next big thing expected to stay on top traveled first class pursued by women and the press mentioned in the tabloids paid handsomely young as roses in bloom whispered about in certain circles the life of parties uptown and down loved to the moon and back dressed in Versace with both parents alive and proud now I'm living in a modest home walking like a zombie at a local Mall disappearing into a crowd learning old friends have become somebody driving while listening to 80s music lost in fantasy at the pharmacy a has-been who would-be if could-be and yet just offered a major new contract given a new lease on hope checking with a lawyer if this is too-good-to-be-true assured this is a legitimate opportunity pinching myself to make sure it isn't just a dream not even worried if this time it will or will not last just ready to once again kick fame and fortune's ass
Ivan Jenson is a fine artist, novelist and popular contemporary poet. His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Ivan was commissioned by Absolut Vodka to make a painting titled Absolut Jenson for the brand’s national ad campaign. His Absolut paintings are in the collection of the Spirit Museum, the museum of spirits in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jenson’s painting of the “Marlboro Man” was collected by the Philip Morris corporation. Ivan was commissioned to paint the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes. Ivan 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 600 poems published in the US, UK and Europe) in a variety of literary media. A book of Ivan Jenson’s poetry was recently published by Hen House Press titled Media Child and Other Poems, which can be acquired on Amazon. Two novels by Ivan Jenson entitled, Marketing Mia and Erotic Rights have been published hardcover. His website is: http://www.ivanjenson.com
Ivan Jenson’s thriller “The Murderess” is now available hardcover and as an eBook on Amazon. Ivan Jenson’s new thriller, “The Widow” will be released in March 2022.