(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Sloe-Eyed, added 15 February 2025. 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.
Red-winged blackbirds are all we know
On earth and all that we need to know. Forget the government and its taxes. All you need to know On earth is that earth is run by people Who want you to pay for a greener lawn Or listen to birdsong tapes and forget All you need to know. July 2007
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.