Douglas Scotney Poems

Je suis un homme amusé:

‘les Anglais sont arrivés’
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According to the Dalai Lama,
experts think they lead.

Hierarchies and mono-cultures
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According to the Dalai Lama
experts think they lead,
and think they show they're human,
by showing where they fail,
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two difficult-to-follows:

one difficult, not so hard,
just meditation:
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External things happen, while reading,
to change the course of novels.

Able to avert the course of change,
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It can't be as simple as this, but:
Earnest, who enjoyed living at the expense of others,
saw too many doing the same
and sloughed off those of them
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Près le fin de siècle,

se fatiguent, les français,
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(shaking his stick...1...2...3)
'Die the day before your old age pension
having spent all your money as you earned it
making the country rich,
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'For' is a favorite word,
for it's not only 'for', it's 'because',
it's both pre-position and -fix,
and it sounds like one before five.
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Forgive me, O Life, on Judgement Day,
for kowtowing;
for not even raising a tool;
and for fighting your vanity with aplomb,
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