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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Rope Tricks
The old cowboys are riding
Bicycles
Cant make a buck as a
Buckaroo, boo hoo
Little dogies smokin stogies
In slap back rooms, fat fingers
Counting stacks of moo-lah
Long, horned steers driving steaks into the
Hearts of heroes who
Once roamed the mighty plains
Drinking bitter root coffee and
Living
Just fine.
(Previously published in Cotworld, Issue 12, Oct 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Rubik's Cubik
Life seems to pose
A continual
Challenge
To accept the flaws
Of family and friends
Things you cannot change
Things youll never like
Things that just dont make much
Sense
And the question is how
Do you accommodate
Their presence
or absence
In a life you must claim
As your own.
(Previously published in The Poet's Porch, March 2002)
Laurence Overmire
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Sad Sacked
He was a weird fellow
Sat around reading books when he
Should have been working
Well, at least
LOOKING like he was working
Not that theres all that much
Work to do really
But its important to our customers
That we always look like were working
It gives them confidence
That theyre dealing with good, honest
Americans
Not a bunch of idiots who sit around
Reading books.
(Previously published in Temenos, May 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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Sand Castles
That which be
Through long and tearful hours create
Is, in an instant
Utterly destroyed
The fatal washing of ungodly hands
No print, no foot, gone
With the tide, away.
(Previously published in Some Words: A Place For Poetry, Nov-Dec 1999)
Laurence Overmire
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