Name: Kenjimoto Sonnet
Duration: P00H00M52S
Description: If anything, I say, take care of your name and who you let name you.

Kenjimoto Sonnet

from Quiver by Ken Yoshikawa

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If anything, I say, take care of your name and who you let name you.

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Kenjimoto Sonnet

A white man dubbed me Kenjimoto-san
Ere first we met; a firmless kid, I swift
Embarked with his delusive marathon.
His slaver’s heart, full insecure, I’d lift
And validate by not confronting; fool,
I played his Asian Leprechaun; I charged
His power plant of Babylon, his tool
Collected, surely sharpened; by’s enlarged
Cruel sense of truth he’d weld to nails, hammed
Me in the calves, affixed my will to doubt
In silence, by ill-wisdom: hypnocrammed.
Long gone, I see since Fate had pulled me out,
He of true power was a parody;
My name is Ken and it means clarity.

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from Quiver, released March 30, 2019

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Ken Yoshikawa Portland, Oregon

Ken Yoshikawa is a shin-issei/first generation half-Japanese American poet-actor from Portland, OR. He has been active in the Portland Poetry Slam community since 2014. He loves blue chicken taco trees and resents punctuation and grammar at his convenience. ... more