Douglas Scotney Poems

If you could see unabsorbed vitamin supplements
in your stools
like you can unchewed seeds,
you'd wonder 'what's the point? '
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'Your ending
will be
a relief
not a shock, '
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Not so long—but long enough—
before scarcity will compel change,
climate change has gone and done it,
and oil and coal
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I took note of a black ant.

It was the larger,
but still not large for an ant,
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Given that in
neither
can you say what
you mean,
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Pulling his pants out of there
and touching his face and hair
before every point
makes Nadal's behaviour fastidious.
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The Spaniard laughs off his Gibraltar-Complex
as there's nothing much there,
and nothing beyond but the sea.
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ils disaient,
les devotés
au chocolat,
‘il cause la bonne santé
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Now that it's
nearly over,
we must decide what name
will do
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When jokemakers,
in front
for skill and daring,
get ex-ed
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