Douglas Scotney Poems

Typical, and funny,
or not,
Truman,
you lied
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The sea itself allures on board minds enough
to need being given a hand by romantic stuff.

Let it take more blame
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Three questions have been polled
and the winners are in:

paying who play it
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I wouldn't say it's what I'm reading,
it's what I'm dipping into,
what I'm doing a lot of
as I'm fast running out of time.
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A poet wrote prose,
as it paid better than verse.
Not to be denied,
he disguised his verse
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'A man born then,
in the first year of the war,
would be a ton
had he not missed 34.
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People love caricatures

who break the law
for the good of their country;
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So many great war writers
were lost by not lasting
past the first day or so.
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Third World workers working First
send money home from First.

Many South Australians
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It's a fact:
you've seen enough
to deny God.
But your humanity
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