Douglas Scotney Poems

Would a writer,
suspicious that his mother wasn’t witless
as his innocence was destroyed
by a wanton pedophile—
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The renewal of a topical issue
returns me to a favorite theme.

Not at all romantically,
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To see what they might do
if God said 'You too',
and to mark his composure
as he sought closure,
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l'Art est

sur l'Espace vide.
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Grace is
suffering behaviour.

It's putting-up with,
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With the number of French words in the World Tongue,
when speaking it,
a Frenchman will toss in one of his
in the hope
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Through a five-pointed star-shaped hole
in a red-brick wall,
from the bottom up:
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I'm afraid of a silent stranger.

A Frenchman speaking his langue franche,
his tongue genuine,
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A tree with its bones on the outside
and its leaves within
is a supertree saviour
like a man with his underpants on the outside
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back in the day,
whether it was fine or not
meant you'd go out or not
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