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Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

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'Unless you cons come across,
we'll call your gold-look-alike alloy 'falsor',
from Latin for gold and to deceive, '
ultimatumed the Institute for Verbifabrication.

'You cons talk tough, '
sneered cons;
then pitched in for 'similor'
for the name for the stuff.

Douglas Scotney

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Topic(s) of this poem: art,crime,language

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After hearing another example of conning going on,
'why shouldn't the Institute get on the bandwagon? '
I thought, after serendipitously coming upon 'similor'
in my favorite book, Chambers Dictionary.

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