Douglas Scotney Poems

Pleague-ee,
what we turned into 'plague',
was just a 'blow' (a strike)
to the Greeks.
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Occasionally
kids are named after leaders -
Washington, I cite.
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She suspects
that one of the drugs
she thinks she's taking for something else
is to make her sick from alcohol
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After a phone offer
of more than double the Internet speed
after only two weeks on the speed I'm on:
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Legend loves a long shot
winning a big one;

loves it even more,
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A low-end recycler
could be a tralala;
a classy one, a trala:
from 'tralaticious',
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t by t by t
by t by t by t

is a hund x a hund x a hund,
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I'm not sure if that's what it's called -
you won't find its picture below
because I can't be bothered to sleuth -
but the cord around your neck,
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being feminine too,
the femininity of 'perfection' is softened, '
said France,
'and 'softened' is 'tempered' too.'
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My wordbook says:
'Simon' perhaps comes from the Greek for 'snub-nosed',
perhaps from Hebrew for 'hearing'.
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