Douglas Scotney Poems

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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Happy that wrapping's in time,
leaving the wrapping to it.

Not happy that time is not in wrapping,
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Don't get ideas.
I didn't smoke dope.

I just wanted a title
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I’m bitter
that we’re giving a shitty future
no option but to regard us as morons
for our over-optimistic scientific view
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In Australia, according to many southerners
right northerners are most opposed
to being told what to do,
then come left norths,
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A babe which plops onto one side of a busy road
and tries to concentrate on what's going on on the other
will switch off
or turn to the irritant instead
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the the we the the the we the the the
more faster move more less slower move less more faster
the the the we the the the we the the
less more faster move more less slower move less more
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