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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Bad Stuff
I like to write
Bad poetry
The hapless reader turns the page expectantly
To gaze upon my ill-iterate words for the first
Unholy time
Only to exclaim
Man, thats bad!
Oh, what revelation implodes upon the accidental gaping of
An unguarded eye
A mind sharpened to the point of
Distraction
From the endless droning of
A tacky-tick, buzz-buzz world.
And if but one coherent thought of
Disgust
Flies heavenward
The whole tedious punishing effort of
Pushing a pen towards its worst
Expression
Is at once
Eminently
Satisfying.
(Previously published in It's All Mulch, Jan 2000; The Hold, Nov 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Balder
A dash of paint here, a dash of paint there
No matter if the dash be great or small
As long as the artist be
Dashing.
(Previously published in Short North Gazette, Nov. '02)
Laurence Overmire
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Bards In Arms
Poetry is the last bastion of free speech
The peoples pure unfettered voice
We shall defend it at all costs
Against the numbing multitudes
The clamoring adversaries of the free word
The dull-witted patsies, posturing poseurs and
Picky pedants who would
Clamp our verse in chains
Make us conform
To rules and pleasantries and ways of being
Morbidly conventional
In strict accordance with the finite aspects of their minds.
No! Our cause is just.
Ten-Hut! You battle-tested troubadours!
Present arms!
And hearts and souls!
We! Shall! Prevail!
(Previously published in Art Villa, Aug. '99)
Laurence Overmire
Read more: poetry poems, people poems
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Barking Up My Tree
Dont take me seriously, please
Take me with a grain of sandstone
A geologic sediment of inter-galactic sludge
Take my human heart and see the contradictions
Look inside my head and see the trains of thought explode
The flights of hypocrisy that cross in convolution and ignorant
Confusion
Say
Boxes that wont open with logical keys
Oh please, dont take me
Seriously
I am of a species that will not adhere to the rules of a literal wit
No
So just sit back and relax and enjoy the show
Admission is free with an open mind.
(Previously published in Unlikely Stories, Oct. '99)
Laurence Overmire
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