Douglas Scotney Poems

'A fifth, ' you ask,
'was there ever a quinth
or a quinter? '
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In Bali once,
with a nearby punter,
I bet on a battle between cocks.
It was the biggest cockfight debacle that day.
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An assumption is made by the advanced
that the other is equally ahead.

When the one finds that the other isn't
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is how I like to spell
the French title
of the famous Picasso
'The Man With The Lamb',
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Already in Classical times
some Greek poets
saw the bill of a crane
in the beaked capsule
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You go through a door
and see objects for sale
for much more than they look to be worth.
You think they're dreamin' (of course*)
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As non-native English speakers will
Joseph Conrad used
wordbook words that were
not commonly used.
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In a wordbook bigger than mine,
a gibnutz is a baritone
and a gib is a castrato.
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When history comes
to talk about seats
it will say
there was much more
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is the poem
from the topic you thought of,
didn't record,
and forgot because another imposed:
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