Douglas Scotney Poems

Whatever else it may be doing
Spirit orders order
To alter its arrangements.
Order tires slowly
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There is no detectable sign of love
In man afraid of dying.
He's lost all love's design.
Or is it, increased signs of love
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Artists needing
Softer form of love,
Feel the call of gutter,
Turn away from fashion
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Wanting what was 'grand',
he looked up 'connoisseur',
the 'universe',
'...to perfect the mind of man'.
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The best of the other in the one.
The best of the one in the other.
Either in the one or the other,
the best of the other or the one.
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To a wand
From beyond,
we're remarkably hard
to work with;
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...hands know early
they can kill their father
but don't
as they're not the paws
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I guess you know,
I've seen it in text
and hope it's out of copywrite:
once a liar always one
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You say to the police
you've done something
that's made you a bull's-eye for who
have no compunction
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It was to make up an absurdist excuse.

When you're addicted
to wasting so many hours a day
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