Douglas Scotney Poems

'Dark'
neutralized by broad use.

In one case,
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I'd carried my heart
so long in my hands
that they and my arms
grew as untiring as it.
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After a comma of tobacco
fell from my op-shop 'Inferno',
I sleuthed that the French say tabac -
probably with a silent c.
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I believe
that 2 crossed cues on a shirt
suggests more in France
than the X or the + or the 2 crossed cues
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'Tis told
that who sold books
in Dante's day
also dealt in drugs.
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Fed up with 'Disability Parking',
I'm championing 'D-P'.
With my D-P Permit
I park an extra hour and a half
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The azuki
is a type of kidney bean
common in China and Japan.
I've heard of Su-zuki,
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Well may we admire an admiral,
but the word is not from 'admire' at all;
not from Latin ad meaning at and mirari, to wonder,
but from Arabic amir-al-bahr, lord of the sea.
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You grew into a lie.
Dressed it up, added tie,
Hurt those who didn't do the same.
Yes, you did what you were told,
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