(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.
When we first met I saw a blinding flash.
The hot wind made me glad to be alive. I hardly felt old hopes and houses tumbling in the crash. I’ll always love U-235. You don’t care that I am going bald. When I collapse you stay till I revive. You hold me close while everybody else remains appalled. I’ll always love U-235. March 2005
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.