Douglas Scotney Poems

Re my tropical ulcer
on the right side of the hair
near the base of my left little finger,
(happily now under control) :
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The big 'stick' you're on
while waiting for waves
in Northern New South Wales,
gives you a chance against a shark;
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Such ideas
as insuring a bad shooter
against a wild boar
by permitting rapid-firing guns
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Soon after paraphrasing
that Puck the sprite
sees nothing but fun
in two at once wooing one*,
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Les's head
looked like the guy's on the left
in Brueghel's 'The Strife of Lent with Shrove-Tide'.
He knew it. It's on the cover
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For 'the paunch'
you can say 'der Wanst'
in German;
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the fun they have in France:

they call an English choir
un q'fil de fer anglais;
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If you don't know, now you do:
'a stang' is a pole, a stake and a sting;
but there's no such thing as 'a stange'.
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I believe
that 2 crossed cues on a shirt
suggests more in France
than the X or the + or the 2 crossed cues
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'Tis told
that who sold books
in Dante's day
also dealt in drugs.
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