Douglas Scotney Poems

There's little doubt
that what doubt has brought about
has brought about reactional violence.
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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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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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i saw a woman
wearing what couldn't be more yellow

where wearing yellow
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We and our team
both hope it'll win,
for the pride and the bulk of the money,
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Because of exhaustion
coffee drinkers don't drink in the heat
the amount they do in the cold.
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I hate that fripperous word
so often used about classical music.

I went back to Kangaroo Island,
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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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If sense hadn't pushed in
and bullied nonsense,

but had crept in alert,
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Excuse if I measure after the bolt, but,
where it was as if the bit of muffin on Pecksniff's trouser knee
WAS his evil genius,
was THAT where Dickens knew
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