(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.
I pulled on a loose thread of history
And unraveled a seam that I hadn’t seen. How did it happen? I can’t explain. History’s disparate parts disarrayed And I dropped the theoretical thread. Not kinder, not gentler, not on the mend— Now history runs to a ragged October 2007
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.