Stephen Bett

Steve McCaffery: Post-Ubu Roi (D.G. Jones glosa glancingly revisited)

the tilde ©

the smooth pneuma ©

“I wandered lonely as a cloud”

angular frequency in degrees ©

A Theory of the Lyric © – Steve McCaffery

the tilde ©

yah, copy-rite that ãden-õidal twang

choke choker, post-lyrical assault accent

dem valley grrl & bhoy breath bites

the smooth pneuma ©

holy ghosts glide in, at best late1

pneumatology strictly (pre-) pre-millennial

tranSports like elevatored smooth jazz

“I [like] wandered lonely as a cloud”

ze (like) floated 71 pronoun non-binary two-spirit

collect prizes awards #OfficialVerseCulture2©

coercively AGAB3

consumable product

angular frequency in degrees ©

tilt angle, reassign yr frequency, light yr antenna

trans-scribe third-gender one percent TM

Big Pharma open-flush mega donor PAC ®

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1

Post-Q , circa Luke – another late developing “myth”

2 Or as Charles Bernstein puts it, “the official verse culture enforcers (OVCEs)...”

3 Or CAGAB: Coercively Assigned Gender At Birth (for those who are not “followers” of trends)

Ron Padgett: Adventures of a Sleight’d Hand

Beautiful / an O fell from

your mouth into the

letters L V and E

spelling out LVEO

The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Jim [Dine] and Ron [Padgett]

– Ron Padgett (with plenty nods to these earlier glosas)

Beautiful / an O fell from

the sleight’d hand of Mr Jim Dine

Oh it’s been such a lone song time

oh ahh that long held hero of mine

your mouth into the

juicy grape-load on dat blackberry vine

4’ ever beyon’ description stuck in brine

hangin tough, this last piece of twine

letters L V and E

thud up an aveolar lateral sign

isolate, u labiodental fricative swine

silent E’s... love’s adenoidal whine

spelling out LVEO

a 1 & ah’ 2 tapinosis, his poet ore-fill’d mine

tap to hip gnosis thru an old Z zine4

evol cover’d5

from St Ein to Franz Kline

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4

Kenward Elmslie’s Z Press & Z Magazine 5 bpNichol’s concrete/visual poem “evol”: full front cover image, love: a book of remembrances

STEPHEN BETT is an internationally published Canadian poet with 24 books in print. His website is www.stephenbett.com