(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)
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Latest addition: The House of Dust, added 16 March 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 I had my druthers, I would live
Snug in an airtight house with picture windows High on the central peak of Herschel crater, Mimas, Saturn, and lose my Friday nights Staring in fascination at the rings. Well, not this year. But while I’m getting ready I use my Friday evenings writing mail To dear, dear friends who live too far away. June 2004
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I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.