Douglas Scotney Poems

Who believe that death is the greatest orgasm
because it frees you from the biggest itch
(lesser ones free you from littler ones)
are right up there with who say
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You say 'Com'on dear'
to a Frenchman,
he says 'Comment on dit',
you know he knows English,
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If you had to rub a match
to get a light,
you’d get a new batch of likes:
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Our hope lies in what man invents
to make bread out of particle matter
at the flick of a switch,
a livable planet of Mars
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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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