Douglas Scotney Poems

'We're a minor irritation
on a sleeping dog;
credited,
a large one,
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don't like traps
that catch their money,

accident possibilities,
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< there's a point to that,
one to this >,
none to this O,
O none to that.
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It's time to start thinking, from not so far,
where the money's going to come from
when it's not coming from where it did
before the regime of the driver-less car.
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WINDBAGS
who express their will
in 7000 words,
when its thieves need few:
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You dramatise the situation
when you're caught without a coat
when the weather changes in France:
you say, 'Je viens en pardessous';
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'I will not be the fool I would be
if I agreed that he
needed to be free more than me, '
as good as declared Shakespeare's Adriana,
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The provisos given,
that the teacher is a she,
the student a he,
and that both are young,
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Fines to be raised to a thousand.

'As the better multi-taskers,
women on the phone in the car risk less.
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...the colors
of the time before bareness
when a few leaves still hang
from susceptible trees;
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