(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: Pi Is 3, added 5 June 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.
If you visit Washington, DC
You will find it kinda spacey. There’s just two parties and you must believe Their God’s almighty or you’d better leave! Perdition, perdition! You’re required to applaud, But tune in your ears and get red and blue running fraud. Watch the Hollywood budget surgeons Being cut down by insurgents. Paul’s gotta skim and Don’s gotta lie But not for long before they fry. Perdition, perdition! You can keep the greatest true faith, And then writhe in hell as a powerless wraith. February 2019
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.