Douglas Scotney Poems

To rest
amongst those
whose disgust has plateaued,
or,
...

You say you don't care
when you're close to a devil
because a devil banishes care.
...

Dear Mick,
Is it that government thought
lags behind popular opinion
that makes it reactionary or turn its back,
...

There was always
too much space between the pixels
for the old-fashioned cosmologist,
who dark matter denied
...

'we can't keep going the way we are'
made bedfellows of zealous belief and the far right
and made good and bad peccadillos.
Bad behaviour
...

You know that once you've seen it
you'll never be the same.
You'll be the one that sees it often,
or rarely, or never again.
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The recipient of the generosity
of a country
which allows necessity
to live without making a living,
...

From the Old English for 'being helpful',
a 'frame',

what assists what's inside,
...

If there's to be a diverse future,
cat excusers
who persuade themselves
that low kill levels in neighbourhoods
...

I aid my memory
by taking note
of where I put a thing,
when I put it.
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