Two Poems by Kenton K. Yee

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Dinosaur Sonnet

    “Everything is true, and nothing is true!”
      —Albert Camus

My vanilla is dripping while fires spread
and there must be better ways to say this.

Land dinosaurs have been wiped out while
descendants of flying dinosaurs thrive.

Deep sea’s the new outer space and
chickens, modern dinosaurs. Your self-

drive BEV will soon self-drive off and,
like ducklings, we’re indebted to an asteroid

for enabling primates to evolve. In his poem
“Poetry Is a Kind of Lying,” Jack Gilbert

wrote, “truth may be told only so.” Now,
factoids are online, as are lies & creative

nonfiction. Sex is raunchier online—as
is chat, so go online and lie about sex.

Loafers

A baker must knead
his dough

and wait
for a rise.

His customers eat
his stowaway flies.

A writer must roll
his dough in lines

and wait
with spider’s mind

to eat
one fly.

Kenton K. Yee’s recent poems appear in Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, Constellations, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, I-70 Review, Rattle, and more. He writes from Northern California.
Facebook: @scrambled.k.eggs and Instagram: @kentonkyeepoet

Featured Image: Loafers by Prosperosity under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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