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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Chucking Chicks
After a time
Used and abused we
Cant stand each other anymore
So nice to
Hurl unwanted relationships
Like left-over shoes and socks and
Under worn wear
Out the upstairs windows
Of our lives.
(Previously published in Hinge, Vol.4, Issue 1, May 2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Consumer
I got me a wife,
I got me three kids,
I got me a dog and a cat.
I got me a house,
I got me a lawn,
And a real nice mower to boot.
I got me three cars,
I got me a boat,
And a platinum-titanium charge card.
I got me a TV, a VCR, a camera and a computer,
A dishwasher, a coffee maker, a blender and a cooler.
I got candles and plants and glasses and jars,
And paper and pencils and socks and shirts,
And gloves and hats and boots and scarves,
And jams and jellies and french fries and beer,
And knick-knacks and what-nots and whoozits
And whatchamacallits.
I even have an entire collection of used license plates.
The only thing I dont have
Is one good reason
Why
I need all this stuff.
(Previously published in Poetic Dreamer, July 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Con-Test
I paid $25 to enter a contest
I didnt have a chance in hell
To win
There were no criteria you see
For winning
Simply the completely skewered
Opinion
Of an unknown judge or two
But someone made a nice
Chunk of change off
The desperation of my ego
Me and a thousand other poets
Groping for a chance to have the word
Heard
No small thing in this cacophony of mean
Culture.
(Previously published in The Real Eight View, Jan 2008)
Laurence Overmire
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104.
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Cowboy Cavalier (haiku)
Cowboy cavalier
Dashing 'cross the dusty plain
American sunset
Laurence Overmire
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