Douglas Scotney Poems

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221.
All Out Of Love

To say without saying
'I'm all out of love',
you could call
that! part of your lover
...

222.
Sorry For Being Tardy

It was to make up an absurdist excuse.

When you're addicted
to wasting so many hours a day
...

223.
Proud Terrorist

I call out 'God Is Great'
and kill unarmed infidels
and armed ones I catch by surprise.
The former arm
...

224.
Knowing Is Stamping Feet

A politician knows
'Not letting a contrarian have his say'
is incorrect.
...

225.
Language And Climate

'ness' has it over 'necessarily'

'heat is not ness a deadly threat to who are used to it',
and '...is not a threat to those used to it'
...

226.
Choices

I've moved.
To where I loathe
what they like, love and generously judge.
...

227.
Gambling, Alcohol And Sport

A drunk footballer
bonks a dog,
someone takes a pic
and sells it to the papers.
...

228.
Rousseau: Un Aqueduc!

At 42, you know you didn't revisit
the walnut tree,
where you were so much your own master at 8,
because it would have humbled you
...

229.
G. S. T. Increase

'Pokies, plus...
mean a good percentage
of the compensation to the poor
for an increase in the GST
...

230.
Vulgarity

On an easy day
back in Rome,
where expectoris
and expectus
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