• Submit to Five South

  • Submissions are open for flash, poetry, long fiction, and non-fiction. Read our submission guidelines.

  • Recently Published

    • Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
    • Saturation by Claire Oleson
      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

    • Caught by Chris Bullard
      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Modern Breakup by Kenton K. Yee

June 28, 2022
Reading Time: 1 Minutes

Fake meat, dry heat while fires

spread and there is no great way

to say this. The smoke trees

are fruiting. People are reaching

for their remotes. Daylight Savings Time

draws people outdoors. Sunny weather

drains reservoirs. People watch

people on TV, where flying machines

topple buildings. Prices

climb higher. The invested

retire. Temperatures break records.

Cars drive themselves. Beans

fry like steak. People watch

people on TV. Reality is

so realistic. Gasoline is

the new bitcoin. People surf

channels. Please don’t cry;

I want us to still be friends

on Bookface.

Share

Poetry  / The Weekly

Yee, Kenton K.
An Iowa Summer Poetry Workshop and Key West Literary Seminar alumnus, Kenton K. Yee recently placed poetry in The Indianapolis Review, The Threepenny Review, Hollins Critic, Plume Poetry, Prembroke Magazine, and Summerset Review, among others. Kenton writes from northern California.

Read More by Yee, Kenton K.:


You might also like

Caught by Chris Bullard
November 19, 2024
Second Winter Solstice During an Epidemic by Marianne Worthington
September 26, 2024
Beautiful Generative Machine by David Fowler
September 17, 2024