Douglas Scotney Poems

To capture our Zeitgeist,
sit on a bus,
not being able to not listen.
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Not being one, but
being one who knows
a stranger looking at you
in a certain way
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A complete carp fisher,
knowing the floundering in fishing
was what kept his mate from getting bored,
invited a good-as-complete flounder along,
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Growing thin
taking fat from others
is a way to win the game.
Another
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In these days of unwillingness
to let the facts get in the way of a good story,
when we love a winner
though he's the only one with CGI,
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Things have to be chaotic
to bring on the next avatar.

According to THEM,
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When a regular stack of orange octagons
above a white ground
appears,
instead of
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An advanced Advaitist of Vedanta
Won all the arguments he would enter,
But hadn't even opened his mouth,
When he turned and fled out of the house
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The young Haydn was still working out his style,
whether to put an 'and' between the last two items in a list,
but that had nothing to do with leaving Kingston.
That belongs to the story of the first deep-sea diver
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Whatever love was
The human race
Early found its limit,
By accident or taught,
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