douglas scotney – An Idea For A Word

Some go to so much trouble
to get across an idea.

Perhaps someone will be attracted by the frills
and then get seduced by an idea
they would not have touched in the nude,
(not ‘they’, ‘an idea’) .

It would seem a waste
to spend so much time
on a frip of an idea.

Who am I to say what’s waste,
what’s frip?

Van Gogh had so much to say in so little time
and developed a quick crochet style to say it.
‘That would make a lovely bedspread, ‘
I’ve heard said,
‘if you can’t quite see it,
you can imagine! what’s going on underneath,
(not what’s painted, the bedspread) .’
‘What’s that! bulge caused by? ‘

Some grand bedspread for thousands,
so many bulges for the imagination.

Here I plant an idea:
where there’s a real lot,
not ‘so many’, ‘soo many’.

douglas scotney

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