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Stephen Bett
 
Mishearing Again 
 

 
Put your pillows
all in a line
I hear Madonna on my
daughter's ghetto-blaster
 
good advice far as I
can tell, & serviceable
dense in possibility
 
Beaten to submission, fluff,
shoot in a row (quack quack)
prioritize pleasure partners, less
extreme than barrel sports
 
advance posture, soft
linkage stuffed boy toys,
dispensing S & M instruction
 
Most of it, second thought,
woman with a case of
been there, done that
the fame vehicle thing
 
just stacks up mileage
til another choice of
waxing
 

 

Stephen Bett has had two books of poetry published - Cruise Control (Ekstasis Editions, 1996) and Lucy Kent and other poems (Longspoon Press, 1983) - and his writing has appeared in over fifty journals in Canada, the U.S., and Britain, as well as in two anthologies, and on radio. He is a member of the English Dept at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C., on the Canadian west coast, and lives with his wife (a zoologist) and two children in nearby Deep Cove.
 

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