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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Santa Monica Pier
The gum sticks to the pavement
Popcorn and cotton candy
Red neck beach bangers hanging
Under the bridge
Chicks in line with tattooed thighs
The stroll along the boards
Is more of a hustle
Knocking elbows through the crowds
Games of no chance played
With a shot in the pocket
Lips loosened for the chase
Denim ripped in the arid
Breeze, the ocean salt
Stinging the eyes without a clue.
(Previously published in Nasty, Sept.2003)
Laurence Overmire
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Shocking
Dip your finger in the blood of
Corpses
Maybe then youll understand
What it is
In the dark, horrific slash of paint
The brutal assault of brush on canvas
Hes trying, in the desperate hours of
Rise to set
To say.
(Previously published in Supralurid, Spring 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Squirrelly Fellow
My teeth are chipped like a monk
Inside my face
I eat nuts and leaves and grass and trees
And bury the choicest morsels for safekeeping
I scamper in and out of dark, wet holes
Up and down dead trunks and fallen limbs
Looking for the shelter of a warm, embracing burrow
And I cant understand
(Perhaps you might explain why)
Chicks find me so unattractive.
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Sept 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Still Waters
When you dig beneath the surface of people
It seems
Each individual has a little bit to offer
A spring of self to be tapped
On his or her own limited terms.
Insofar as your needs and wants
Coincide
There may be
A merging of like tributaries
Flowing in the same direction.
But only one or two
If youre lucky
Will open the deepest channels of
Themselves
Stay the course through the
Rapids that treacherously lie in wait
The blast of stone and spray
A lifetime commitment
To see the end and the beginning
The return of the rain to the cloud in the sky
The vastness of an ocean
Serene in the wave and drift
...of time.
(Previously published in Shadyvale, Summer 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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