(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Stow the Sneer, added 20 July 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.
Now, what does a seahorse use for a rocking chair?
It could just rock in its place—but that’s pretty boring, Especially if we want to be clever now. So let’s invent one! And give it sprockets—or maybe... Hydraulic! Of course! And powered by ocean currents, Using vanes that go round—and weights for the rocking! Wow! That’s an invention! We could earn cash like water! Hey, I’ll write to the Patent Office, if only You will do up those drawings they always want. February 1986
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.