Douglas Scotney Poems

I just came across 'cyclothymia',
from Greek thymos, spirit,
for 'a temperament that goes up and down'.
So why weren't we happy with that;
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'Caca' wasn't nice in Spain,
so Spaniards,
finding something nice called that
in Mexico,
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A rhymster-playwright failure
in old Australia

(not as far back as Shakespeare,
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An author
inserts a few Italian words
in Chapter One of his novel,
then gradually adds more
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Hats With Brims,
Beanies,
and, between the two,
Caps,
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It's the Japanese word
for 'kimono',
I'm told,
and see why
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A poet on fire
fires one after another,
gets addicted, can't stop;
fires:
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No cap? Cap? Beanie?
One blanket? Two?
Doors open? Closed?
Underpants? Shorts? Longs?
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My homm^ says
a decastere is ten steres.
I have to look up 'stere':
it's a cubic metre,
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If I say 'cot cote, cot cote, cot cote, cot cote'
I'm speaking systalticly:
alternately contracting and dilating,
pulsating like a heart.
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