(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Pi Is 3, added 5 June 2026. Read my best poems or look to the blue bar on the left. Most of these were originally written for the Daily Whale, my daily joke, epigram, or satirical tidbit. All are short; most are funny; all are formalist (no free verse, other than the odd parody), though some of the forms are alien to tradition.
In the nation that forgot
Nothing works that worked before; Policy is scattershot; No one is from Ecuador; Donald lying through and through Has no fault, though woe betide, And the bridegroom—strange but true— Never turns into a bride. April 2025
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.