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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Father and Son
Ive walked a wall around my father
Choosing angles from different sides
Point of reference at no return
And wondered where the intersection
Of two points on a line.
And diagrammed completely every sentence
Subject verb
Touching every principle that modifies a man.
We are the darknesses uncolored
Shapes that havent taken form
Our pseudo-self-dimensions are transparently inept
So here I am without conclusion
An inequality unborn:
There is no mathematic in the muddled myth of man.
(Previously published in Friction Magazine, Winter 2000, Vol 2, Issue 1)
Laurence Overmire
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Fiber
We forget that air
is a substance
we cant see it
but its there
connecting everything
and everyone
With every breath
i take you in
give back myself
we are in touch
no matter how far
The distance an illusion
between that which is
not and can not be
separated.
(Previously published in Bellowing Ark, Vol.22, Number 5, Sept/Oct 2006)
Laurence Overmire
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Go West, Young Man
When you feel the stagnate of life
in the shoe
Time to move, to stir, to rally
Mix it up with the Maker
Pull a number out of a hat
and take a chance
Spurs to the hide, mane to the wind
Like a bullet, flying
straight on
Toward a new horizon.
(Previously published in Austin Daze, March 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Hewhay
The corporation, nameless name
So sacred we dare not say it
Calls us into being
In reverence we bow to its
Will
Knowing it knows that which is
Best for our little human lives
We would sacrifice our first-born
Sons to honor the holiness
Of its bidding
Whether it be taking away our
Insurance plan
Requiring us to work double overtime
Or laying us off
Penniless in the street, for food to beg
We understand
It is the way of the Omnipotent
And must perforce be
Good for all mankind.
(Previously published in Infinite Race, Aug 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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