Douglas Scotney Poems

'Never speak without something to say'
is license to
as no-one can.
If you speak from an early age,
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On August 16,2014,
94.

You, who answered 'what for? ',
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My car has broken down.
I have a comfortable feeling
That the future will be better,
Having had a car,
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The dollar's been high so long,
we no longer put wine in glass made here,
but export it in bulk
and have it bottled where it's drunk.
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Avoidance of hazard
And wisdom of mind
Can only delay implication
Of everything being just.
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We multiplied
out of content.

We saw the moon
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An honest,
to-be-widely-read poet
with a heart for rhyme
saw honesty increasing his troubles,
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Hardship says
“I know from where everything comes out
and ask you from here ‘What? ’ ”
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I supposed it was too much to expect
that no-one else would have thought
a pansy with a face looked like Yosemite Sam,
but I was secretly glad
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what's alread-
y old, or
what we un-
derstand, or
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