Douglas Scotney Poems

The poem of impoverished argument
and the ode that Elmer Fudds the mind
can still impress the impressionable kind
with that animated tool,
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Ursus
An exception saw the ease
of life beside exception,
sought a greater exception
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Antisthenes Agnostes,
ex 'Proudest in Hell',
anticipating ease in suffering
from new king suffering worse,
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A rose
Arose from the finest root
And bore a little flower
In the middle of the night and winter.
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Before the beginning of philosophy
lines absorbed disturbance through their length.

Along came a short line.
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There was a strong wind
blowing between the buildings,
but instead of taking shelter inside
he lashed himself to a post
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At the stage we're in,
where the failings of machines
are used to retard
the onset of their perfection,
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Once God is dead
the more a person has of money,
no matter how he made it,
the further from fault he can be;
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Whenever the odds are high
that death will come with a stroke,
hunting takes top spot in sports
and a lion that's shot
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Obscurities in poems
you often ignore
that you'd explore
if there were pennies
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