Douglas Scotney Poems

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181.
Doubting Serena

Following Lucy's pronunciation
in Moscow's summer of 2018
Australians will never be the same.
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182.
Plastic Thoughtlessness

Right-thoughtless were umbrella bearers
round 1853,
as thoughtless of a Right Whale's mouth and death
as had been farthingale wearers
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183.
Tiger

You and a tiger,
friendly now,
but just time
till you're lunch.
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184.
Baba Crap

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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185.
Sidetracked By Language

If a nook was a neuk,
a poet would change
a look to a leuk.
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186.
Sitting Duck

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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187.
Licking My Baboons

Because, for the French,

a babine is an animal's lip,
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188.
Haiku - Bees

189.
Poking

To make you pay
for what you have done
and are doing,
increasingly poking
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190.
Where The Action Is

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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