Douglas Scotney Poems

It was sophisticated
to call a typewriter that,
after the Greek typtein to strike,
and not to call it a tap-tap-tapper,
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What commuters in cars

really really want
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While thinking what I would have thought
had I just been,
or been just,
caught at a level-crossing
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'I had it
that I wouldn't know
who had donated to my campaign.
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As they could not see it,
wanted to see it,
believed it was there,
they believed the function of trillions of drops
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you're functional
not taking a rest
your memory is a computer

you know why
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Herein why we're happy,
Why we're also sad:
Wealth arising from the poor;
Duplicated good;
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Above the only two lines of 'Ode on Napoleon'
Coleridge tacked a hoarding
Explaining how he'd been compelled to attempt it
Despite knowing that anger, hate,
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'It begins with a curse:
at memories,
for filling in most of my hours,
limiting my writing time,
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