Douglas Scotney Poems

Sub-standard rooms in a motel
in the news,
because allocated to blacks
in Alice Springs.
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Now that commerce and pride
have turned 'champagne' to 'sparkling wine'
and are turning cheeses too;
and wanting to limit 'baloney' for their sakes,
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A song you can't pick up the words in
and a song you can:
give a coin a toss -
call the latter a song,
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After one writer's style after another's
makes you say WOW,
and another's after both's styles
makes you say OW
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A sailing boat
out of control in a gale
sailors say is in irons.
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with fewer Madames de Maintenant
than any other,
was known to his court
as Sans;
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An English-speaker only
overheard 'spiel' often used
by a couple speaking in Deutsch.
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your bottom hole an anus
was rude in old Rome,
for there,
one of those was a ring.
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The causes
of my pimples and global warming
are simple:
they're in chocolate and CO2.
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'I've come forward with a deposition,
Your Honour, '
today, elicits thoughts excremental.
It's more likely to be 'testimony'.
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