The World Poetry Café Radio Show, CFRO, 100.5 FM with the team of Ariadne Sawyer, Neall Ryon, Victor Schwartzman and Sharon Rowe, welcomed the multitalented Bernice Lever on October 6, 1-2 pm. Music by the Irish Rovers and Wayne Lavalee.
Bernice Lever, born 1936 in Smithers, BC, was a founding editor of WAVES, literary magazine, York U., from 1972-1987 and has published ten poetry books, (Red Letter Day, Black Moss, 2014), a teaching CD: The Colour of Words. She’s active in Canadian Authors, League of Canadian Poets, Federation of BC Writers, etc. She reads poems, (some prize winners), across Canada, USA and abroad. She has won five Lifetime Achievement awards as well as the Allan Sangster Award. Also she was named #1 Comedy Writer at Whistler Writers Festival , Comedy Quickies” event, October 15, 2015.
Writer-in-Residence for CAA – Vancouver, she edits book manuscripts. Retired from Seneca College, Toronto, she gives workshops across Canada Bernice gets ‘high’ on words. www.colourofwords.com
This poem is from her tenth book of poetry: Small Acts.
Gag Google
I live in an E house
captured by satellite
on a lens generated
by Google cameras
set to follow me
day and night.
How about you,
can you see me too?
Can you see my car parked outside
or if my lights are on inside?
May your unopened gmail
advise you more about me:
what mall I am shopping at
or which gift parcel is going
to whose building next.
Odourless Google works in silence
around the clock, circling the globe.
Humourless Google snaps pictures
on endless E circuits:
just a total invasion machine,
but not ethical nor powerless.
Google is expanding, invading
by millions of zeros and ones
by the hour — world wide.
Remember, Google is no gag.
Bernice Lever — 2016 manuscript// SMALL ACTS
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