Douglas Scotney Poems

My television wouldn't work.
I went and bought Big Other.
I watched the triumph of The Crows
In splendid vivid colour.
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As a Queenslander I'm told
I say fuel for fool
Go to skewel not school
'But hey' is a vocabulary tool.
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a personal prayer, an excuse and a warning

On this the land
On which I swat
you steward of the land
On which I squat
Forgive me my trespasses.
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One thing named after its first maker
is the carriage, the tilbury.

Have I written a poem
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To mass kill
is to massacre,
so to the mind,
mine at least,
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PFUNDSKERL (POUNDSGUY)
is German for GOOD BLOKE.
Bloke is Australian for Guy.
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In times more or less stupid,
Cupid shot a dart at a famous fancy-free,
probably Queen E.
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You tested arnt
and ant and ornt.
You settled on ont.
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After a bit
of cheese
I was slicing
fell on the floor.
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I have an 0
stuck in the ground
of my back yard:
black on an off-white metal plate,
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