Douglas Scotney Poems

Unberufen, ...Uncalled for,

soll ein Kerl sagen, ...a guy should say
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Excess has an air
of everything being the same
and there being no inhibition.
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The poem that's like the previous poem,
which is like the one before it,
is a wave
washing away what settles
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In a country of many of them in a row,
a coin became a louis.
For the hated XVth
a louis was a hundredth of a franc.
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The grand scheme
ruling over who think little
or not at all before they do
tempts who think much before doing.
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On discovery that the monetary unit of Ecuador
is the French word for sugar.

From the German for valley,
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A man who,
unlike his two predecessors,
gets to where he is
by being wise,
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Dreaming of the day
when it can fly a streamlined can
with no space for the rich,
the old and the disabled,
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Just when I thought a miracle had occurred
and another would have the matriarch up for a sainthood,
her little sister said that the first sensible present
she'd ever got from her
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As a church-bell breast-beating
amidst the rip of tyres
out for the ride
is to pride
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