Douglas Scotney Poems

I'm sad
that cops are being caught
shooting in the back.
What are they going to do now
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How to get the people to see
that they will necessarily be
better off, not the same or worse,
when we take to court
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The use of commas is well and good in prosy poems, but in ones in lines artificial, use none, use the end of the line as a pause.

The use of commas is well and good in a prosy poem
but in ones in lines artificial
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Machine economists
exploit the universe for jobs
and have an argument
in that there is no meaningful end to it.
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We do a lot of things
that shame us
but we don’t eat an überburger in front of a starving child;
but not eating that in front of it
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It’s a pity our ex defence minister
didn’t say ‘tinny’ when he said
he wouldn’t trust Adelaide to build a canoe
let alone a submarine.
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They didn't fit
in what we thought was our final goal
and we thought they were lost, wasted and irretrievable,
those brilliant bits
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Breaking words down
and finding out
what they really are
is what it's all about.
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If you are challenged
to do something almost elementary,
and choose to ask a gay
if he's dating,
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Before I make more
of this perfect, sunshiny,
23 degree day,
I ask for the garden weevil
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