Toot Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Toot



When I found where 'porn' is from,
I started to call it 'toot'
and to rhyme it with 'shoot',
and to rhyme it with 'foot'
and to call it 'toot'.

Now look at the rhymes!
put, soot and kaput, or
boot, root, loot,
moot, galoot, suit,
scoot and a hundred more.

Saturday, May 12, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: language,political,rhyme
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
pornee: Greek for 'prostitute'

toot: to make short, sharp sounds; to blow so as to make such sounds; a blast; to inhale a drug; snort; a snort of a drug; a drug for snorting; a drinking binge; a toilet. (prob. from imitation of the sound) .
to pry, peer, peep about; to be prominent; a hill on which a look-out is posted; a look-out place (from old English totian, to stick out, peep out)
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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