(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Kalevala, added 4 August 2024. 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.
The world is charged with obstruction of justice.
We must stand trial. Though shaken as shocked quartz We sing out for sentencing: Let Clio’s courts Judge we are still unjust as Augustus. Generations have conned, and glommed, and scammed, And all are slimed with lies, grim, grimed with lies That tell tall tales and sell worn wares; our eyes Are hooded, nor can hearts hope, being damned. Yes, to all this our nature is ever bent. Now, self-captured, we face the difficult Process of law: We must self-represent, Self-prosecute, self-judge, and bear result Of guilt: The Inner Child’s imprisonment Will free chid felons to act—at last!—adult. November 2007
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.