Douglas Scotney Poems

Funny, the spelling of sounds in comics:
SHINGGG and SHLLLLT, says a sword
as it exits its sheath,
SHUNKK as it enters a belly.
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In some places they say boak for 'vomit'
and spell it boke and bolk as well.

Thankfully a yolk ain't a yoke and a yoak
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It was sophisticated
to call a typewriter that,
after the Greek typtein to strike,
and not to call it a tap-tap-tapper,
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Like I did, in my
consciousness of poisons downunder,
you might, in yours,
in your Wordsbook Chambers,
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Tocdor! Tocdor! Hear whad I say,
'A doy shordens a detious tay.'

What you've got is Tee Dees disease,
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Born 1809, Jan 19 and Feb 12.

In 'The Raven' by Poe,
Athena is called by her by-name Pallas.
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It's not so strange that 'une case'
is French for 'a square on a chessboard'
and for 'a space on a form';
and can be a hut and a cabin;
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The French don't say they made a meal of somebody,
they say somebody wasn't a mouthful.

Instead of French for 'I'm sweating like a pig',
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The iconic Flanders poppy flower
is blood-red with a black cross at its centre.
A pure one is rare.
The variation, in which the cross has white tips,
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The sum of the numbers
from 1 to 2 is 3 times 1
from 1 to 4 is 5 times 2
from 1 to 6 is 7 times 3
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