Poems by Jay J.P. Scott

(Not to be confused with other people named Jay Scott.)

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.

I set the goals that make the whole world run.
I keep a database on everyone.
I change the future when I make the fads.
I write the ads, I write the ads.
January 2002

I also wrote a poetry program, Authorial Intent.