Douglas Scotney Poems

Cynicism and cast
will decide
if a government
deserves to finish first or last
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Most cry
at cemeteries and shrines,
and hardships;
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A favorite poet
stuck in bed a long time dying,
Heinrich Heine kept on writing
long after others would,
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I 8 'he' beating 'if',

'said' and 'page' above 'paid',
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A projectile lover,
reading a bio about a lyricist,
comes across a prose lyricism—
‘what the does that mean? ’—
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Wise Chambers
declares as obscure
the origin of 'coney'.
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Thinking Asia,
think I'sia and M'sia,
Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Without room for
or unable to forgive
or care about the past
minimalists militants and philistines
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There's something ungenuine
about governments saying they must stop the people smugglers
because they're abandoning their charge to their fate.
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We take stuff
for the low
from wising up
that all we know
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