Au Naturale | by Ivan Jenson

You have always

struck me as

having the 

passive aggression 

of a peace-monger

vegan angel

with only 

one left wing

but as of late

your reactions

have become

so very reactionary

in that you don't 

budge from

the grunge 

of some grudge

from the 90's

and though 

you are against

animal testing

and antibiotics

you don't 

seem

homosapien 

anymore 

just 

unsympathetically 

homeopathic 

so please

swallow some pride 

with your

supplements

and find it in 

your heart 

to love this 

corny

corn starched

soda pop 

carnivore 

a little more

 

 

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Ivan Jenson is a pop art painter and contemporary poet whose artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine while selling at auction at Christie’s. Jenson was commissioned by Absolut Vodka to make a painting titled “Absolut Jenson” for the brand’s national ad campaign, and his “Marlboro Man” was collected by the Philip Morris corporate collection. Jenson was commissioned to paint the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes before his death. He also wrote two novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, both of which illustrate the creative and often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson turned to poetry as an outlet for artistic expression, and he is now a prolific writer who is widely published (with over 450 poems published in the US, UK and Europe) in a variety of literary media. Jenson’s poems were recently published by Hen House Press in a book titled Media Child and Other Poems, which can be acquired on Amazon.