Douglas Scotney Poems

More than half-way
through my engagement
to the viscous swim
to the star
...

When he couldn't,
what he did
when he could
saw him through.
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In English,
with the same words,
“it couldn’t get better”,
I can say how good “it” is,
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Started we
to breathe
like fish,
in the presence of crabs
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While what sat on top
fed on Rome,
Constantinople
and Istanbul
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Angry with the avatar
for not coming for the beheadings,
to make things worse
to get it to come,
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i saw a woman
wearing what couldn't be more yellow

where wearing yellow
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If you drop into dark holes,
each one for close to the same time,

and emerge each time
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The lot of the kind
who say it is when it isn't
and I'm not what I am,
the lot of that kind
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