Douglas Scotney Poems

According to a Tibetan
whose knowledge is ruled by his tongue,
he's fine
when he likes what he tastes,
...

In these days of unwillingness
to let the facts get in the way of a good story,
when we love a winner
though he's the only one with CGI,
...

Not being one, but
being one who knows
a stranger looking at you
in a certain way
...

A complete carp fisher,
knowing the floundering in fishing
was what kept his mate from getting bored,
invited a good-as-complete flounder along,
...

When the branch manager
said he could do no more than care
about how his factory was polluting the air,
I thought he might be saying he was a soft bloke
...

Things have to be chaotic
to bring on the next avatar.

According to THEM,
...

Growing thin
taking fat from others
is a way to win the game.
Another
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When a regular stack of orange octagons
above a white ground
appears,
instead of
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An advanced Advaitist of Vedanta
Won all the arguments he would enter,
But hadn't even opened his mouth,
When he turned and fled out of the house
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The young Haydn was still working out his style,
whether to put an 'and' between the last two items in a list,
but that had nothing to do with leaving Kingston.
That belongs to the story of the first deep-sea diver
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