Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett has two books--Cruise Control (Ekstasis Editions, 1996)

and Lucy Kent and other poems (Longspoon Press, 1983). He can be reached at

pamm@axionet.com.

Another Knock-Off

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"the language, the language!"

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WCW

This is just to say

I have tasted

all your knock-

offs

Koch

Dorn (both)

Dudek

Berkson (w/ Fagin & Padgett)

and Webb

and which

you left lying

around

under wraps

Forgive me

they still

knock me out

what poems

you found

in that open

icebox

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