Douglas Scotney Poems

She was only fifteen
when they met,
so Louis called her
Toinette.
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Inbring for bring in
stuck for a mo,
but impatient for bad patient
doesn't seem to have been given a go.
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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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