Douglas Scotney Poems

Of late, looking up:
the density of stars
in the Sagittarian centre
of the Milky Way;
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Of 'morning', 'mourning' and 'mawning',
the latter
is unoccupied with meaning;
therefore not in
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Perhaps ignorant of nuance,
just-call-me-Marie
fed 'cake' to the people of France.
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'He's obese', of yore,
meant: 'he's full-up',
'he's eaten everything on his plate',
'he's complete'.
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said 'Seventeen is enough
for infinity'...

saw infinite syllables
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Dutch touch
won overall
with, as usual,
je ne sais quoi.
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A gambling man with limits
beyond which he wouldn't go,
because a believer
(one who doesn't know) ,
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If, as by ours,
things
are started by the divine mind
out of need to do something,
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I'll leave it to you
to work out why,
but,
when comfort and logic
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Did I not get left enough
to be left enough to clap a man
who says we ought to throw our frontiers open
to whomever wants to come?
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