Douglas Scotney Poems

The causes
of my pimples and global warming
are simple:
they're in chocolate and CO2.
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'I've come forward with a deposition,
Your Honour, '
today, elicits thoughts excremental.
It's more likely to be 'testimony'.
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Two ways to say
the same thing are:

Both better said
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Before Spenser,
'feared' was also 'adreaded'.

For rhetoric and rhyme
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I fell asleep
into a hole the shape of my country.
Looking into that hole at night,
I took the stars to be her cities.
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Full many a year
flitted I through my wordbook
without alighting on 'fleer' -
to wry your face in contempt.
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to his P-
to the detriment
of kingly duties and money,
and the kneading it needed
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'wish-bone' to 'furcula'
and 'flying-fish' to 'ichthy-pter'

and 'straight feather' and 'cockroach'
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'A fifth, ' you ask,
'was there ever a quinth
or a quinter? '
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