Douglas Scotney Poems

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amused the bastard
until he found the biggest creation,
which did the amusing
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More than half-way
through my engagement
to the viscous swim
to the star
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When he couldn't,
what he did
when he could
saw him through.
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In English,
with the same words,
“it couldn’t get better”,
I can say how good “it” is,
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Started we
to breathe
like fish,
in the presence of crabs
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While what sat on top
fed on Rome,
Constantinople
and Istanbul
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‘Spērāre' from Rome
combines with its ‘no'
to give us our word ‘despair'.
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To slip into bed
and put a knife in her side,
an insulted poet
turned aside
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'The Time of Simile and Metaphor',
is what Satisfaction
calls
the Time
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