UN/WIRED

STEPHEN BETT

BLAZEVOX[BOOKS]
Buffalo, New York

 
Un/Wired
by Stephen Bett
Copyright © 2016

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 Snap, Clever Boy

I try, jocular, to play

to you, my son, 22 —
don’t let your older sister
pit boss the whole
damn deal

And you counter, one-

eye, bemused
(folded tight on
your tongue)
“there’s nothing
left”

Oh there is, my
clever boy,
a full deck
lain open in
your hands

Sound of the next

quick snap
(jack)

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 Diver on a Fiver

Sidewalk panhandler takes five bucks

from attractive young woman
turns around & flamboyantly
offers to take her for a
“very nice dinner”

Dumpster diving for two…

Won’t get you a clean napkin

in this neighborhood,
my lovelies

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 Junk
for Ken

My server says you’re

a “thick client”
as opposed to a
“thin” one,
so you got junked
ma’ man

“Thin” peels off the

shelf for young’uns
anyway
& it still don’t
get that fill’er up
fine time feel

No more junk for you

ol’ frien’, we been
cashed out well
before carrying
any of that
dessert
load

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 Bossy

All this “like” makes

the royal we miss
the good old days
of “you know,”
sport

Mike Bossy (NY

Islanders)
could really
double down
on those
between
periods
interviews ―
well, you know
you know,
coach says
we gotta,
you know,
get the puck
out of our
own end,
right?

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 Misplaced Modifier (L.W. novel)

Pepper told me he was gay on the

train from Boston to New York.

One track only

One ticket

One way

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 Mini Naughty Bits Poem

THE NEW MINI COUPÉ AND ROADSTER ARE HERE.

Whether you’re out cruising [whoa] for some hot, curvy [zowie],
open-for-anything [yowsa] roads or just whipping [ooouch]
around, getting intimate [l⋅l⋅l⋅l] with the urban sprawl, the new 2-
seater [mmm] MINI Coupé and Roadster will always keep you hot
on the trail of a perfect 10 drive [rrrr her, he sd]. Visit us at
facebook.com/MINI or better yet, test drive one [whuump] at
your MINI Retailer [tail ’er?].

TRIM YOUR POSSE [trim yr what?].

CHASE SOME TAILPIPE [no salt on her…..zoo-zoo-zoom].

WE OWN IT!

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 Swine Flu

Doctor says mild case

of H1N1.....da da

Decided to “go” conspiracy —

H1-Y2K-MI6-KGB
(double mole)

You, friends, will

say “swine”

So I will hack you

oinking into
a far-flung
century

Looking for
your uncased
soul

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 Practise

Practise makes perfect

so we’ve been scrimm-
aging more of late

Lots of drills —
chesting down
passing into channels
marking your man
& getting stuck in

Running into open space

where it’s every man
for himself

Where it’s everyman

alone or as one
(as a rule, fall-
ing slo-mo in
situ or in
dread

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 Best Express

Best expression of the

season so far:

They really do seem

to be playing with the
colleywobbles today,
Spurs

Lilywhites &
Colleywobbles

— double express lane,

merge on white hart
pain

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 Moving Date Draws Nigh

First it was hum-

drum stabilizer
(no melodies)

& some kind of

jazzed up ’burb
retention

Now it’s all about

moving
crapolla

Yup,
moving
crapolla

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 Dialing It Down, Smooth Jazzer

We’re dialing it down, quoth a

smooth jazz “artiste” in a recent
jazz mag feature art•i•cle

Dial down the genius level

(oh that de-licensed word
sneaking in every
where of late!)

Dial it down for a sound

that people can
under-shh’tand

But don’t dial it down

for me, hon —
ah’m settin here list’nin
to Jeff Beck age 70-
frickin-somethin “Live
at Ronnie Scott’s”

One tidy late date

to another,
boy’um

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 Who’s Next at the Symphony

My Audi’s “Symphony” display

is showing Julia Hülsmann Trio titles as

A LIGTH LEFT ON

(I don’t think so)

&

WHO?S NEXT

which is the question

(& not a pipe)

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