Douglas Scotney Poems

Where apes descended from man:
both seas and seize
were sees;
frieze and freeze
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This poem's title
could also be 'Bits'.

'Win' is half of 'Winter',
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Like A Tasmanian
In The Presence
Of An Adelaidean,
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The equivalent of 'Vladimir'
could be 'William':
Vlad-i-mir
Will-i-am
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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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