Douglas Scotney Poems

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

and to the good fortune of my passengers
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The economical poet
will take a digital picture
of waterlily flowers covered in bugs
if he wants one
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A sea-biscuit is a last-resort
and a tooth-crack,
and another name for one
is a hardtack. Right?
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One that deniez
there's a prize
in every sea tale
in which there'z a prize;
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what's here
has less than what you want
so you go there
and bring it back,
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An immeasurable amount of what is
is what is not expected.

You can't work out what is.
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Did I hear
that it was fear
that one might want to get sick
to make it pay
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As a Rule
Birds called In
On Branches with Different
Are Cool.
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There's one going on
now the sellers have dropped the crude
and made us think it's cheap,
and let us slow down the search
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