Douglas Scotney Poems

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391.
Caffeine Addiction & Global Warming

Because of exhaustion
coffee drinkers don't drink in the heat
the amount they do in the cold.
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392.
Even Australia

Australia will become more even
than the odd one now.

You won't have to use the power for two
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393.
Not Exactly Darth Vader

When you slip a poem into Poemhunter
under one that's already there,
like I do with my One Text Poems,
you're not noticed,
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394.
Status Quo

With conservative might
Science says she'll be right, all is fine:
one cancer more than three in nine
is none when your talking a million.
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395.
Dignity Test

There's little doubt
that what doubt has brought about
has brought about reactional violence.
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396.
A Parallel

If sense hadn't pushed in
and bullied nonsense,

but had crept in alert,
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397.
Chuzzlewit V: The Tide Turns

Excuse if I measure after the bolt, but,
where it was as if the bit of muffin on Pecksniff's trouser knee
WAS his evil genius,
was THAT where Dickens knew
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398.
There's Something About 'Wonderful'

I hate that fripperous word
so often used about classical music.

I went back to Kangaroo Island,
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399.
Half Full

'In favour of poets
who pick on dregs who drag down others
who murder them then kill themselves
when all hope seems gone,
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400.
Poetmother In Rags At The Doors Of Ikea

My daughter lives in there.
There's no way I could stay:
Look at what I'm wearing,
Even though I gave my daughter.
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