Douglas Scotney Poems

Qualcosas,
his name already specialized
to Terrificas
by many of his followers,
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For the purity
of the lite of the willy,
I mean, of the white of the lily,
'lily-white'
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'nesia' means 'islands',
so if peninsula Malaya,
a bit of Borneo
and minuscule islands
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The Middle Way
The doctor who says thisis,
not fthisis or tisis
for phthisis, the wasting disease,
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Clearly
he can
but a ball-kicking sportsman
shouldn't
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'Notre Dame's burning
caused by workers restoring'
defaulting as the excuse.
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In search of the word
for the quote of another author
that an author prefixes to the text of a novel,
the poet rejects the temptation
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The need for a rhyme
for 'If you don't beat it out,
the sand that gets in
makes a carpet stiffen',
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Less of a dastard if dastard at all
stands the nightly predator
who predates on nocturnal prey
going about their business
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