(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Electric Bugaboo, added 26 April 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.
Look how the rosy-fingered dawn,
The morn in russet mantle clad, Bleeds her life out on the lawn. Isn’t that too bad! Classical dawn goes down to day, One more shelf of books to learn, While the Pierian Prudhoe Bay Serves up drink to burn. August 1998
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.