Today’s New Verse News: DON’T KID YOURSELF
by Steven Kent
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." —W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
“I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.” —Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic, May 13, 2022
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"It cannot happen here," we claim;
"Our country couldn't be that bad!"
But we may live to find the fame
M. Atwood found in Gilead.
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Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer, musician, and Oxford comma enthusiast Kent Burnside. His work appears in Light, Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, and OEDILF, among others.