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More fortissimo. Lift your voice higher.

Your singing is terrible, where is your fire?

Fill up your lungs. You’ll never get it right.

Practice, more practice, if it takes all the night!

You push me too hard, she gasped, in despair.

You sit there so smug, relaxed in a chair.

But you will get yours, rang out in her head,

And she forced a high C as she thought of him dead.

Well, her sharp note rose high, vibrating the room,

And the acoustic ceiling started to boom,

And the chandelier fell with that lethal note

And his tirade was stopped by a shard in the throat.

Joy Hewitt Mann’s work has appeared in hundreds of publications internationally. She has won the Leacock Award for poetry and the Acorn-Rukeyser Award. Boheme Press, Toronto, published her short story collection, Clinging to Water, in 2000. Boheme will publish her first full-length poetry collection, Bone on Bone, and her first novel, Lacrima Christi, in 2003. She is working on her next novel, Los Penitentes.