Douglas Scotney Poems

You and a tiger,
friendly now,
but just time
till you're lunch.
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The baba crap
in the new poems list
has turned the list to a sieve.
Till management work out what to do
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If a nook was a neuk,
a poet would change
a look to a leuk.
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If we don't know or need to know
if it's a he or a she
and it's rude to call it an it,
let's call it an e.
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Because, for the French,

a babine is an animal's lip,
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To make you pay
for what you have done
and are doing,
increasingly poking
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Viewed to the west from the top of Mt Lofty
(about 10 km east of the CBD and 20 from the sea) ,
long, thin, flat Adelaide is 'Suburbia'
with 2 'islands' - Airport and CBD.
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I don't know
if my being led to the brink
and turning back then
made him think
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Last heard,
29 March,2018,
wasn't even tape pressed into dirt;
was shop sandpaper,
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