Douglas Scotney Poems

Regular glimpses of truth
Provided by vocation
Kept regret at bay.
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When power's cheap,

appliances are dear,
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Each of
'Is it
...necessary',
...fit',
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What was under control while
what controlled it lived
became vile
when it died,
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A poet is at the far left or far right
of the sensitivity echelon;
therefore what a poet says
is as discarded
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Kafka agreed with Swift's emphasis
that 'Parents are the least of all others
to be trusted with the education of their children',
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Leaving aside the authorial vanity of both,

both,
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I State,
broken and kept broken
by profanity,
takes a toehold,
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Life and dreams mostly crave
and are happy together
only when they don't.
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A poem of mine*
about a pansy
known as Yosemite Samsy, *
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