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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Differences
What is the difference between a black man and a white man?
Is there a difference between a Japanese and a Chinese?
A Bosnian and a Serb?
How about the difference between a Protestant and a Catholic?
A Muslim and a Jew?
Or a capitalist and a socialist?
What is the difference really?
A woman and a man, there must be a difference
Mustnt there be?
Oh, whats the difference what the difference is? !
The difference is
A beautiful thing.
Thank God for the difference.
Imagine a world without difference,
How would you feel about that?
Indifferent, of course.
So why dont we all just stop our moaning and
Complaining and go out there and
Make a difference.
Its a beautiful thing.
(Previously published by Stroll of Poets Society, July 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Distinction
Class is
A state of mind
Not
A state of wallet.
(Previously published in Panic! Brixton Poetry, Oct 2000)
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Do the Limbo
He loved her for her beauty.
She loved him for the cars, the furs
The jewelry, and the address.
Together they made a
Spectacularly
Shallow couple.
The perfect husband and wife team
To anchor the news
On Channel 7.
(Previously published in Cotworld, March 2001)
Laurence Overmire
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Doctor In Spite of Himself
Pen in hand
I am the doctor
Standing in the delivery room
Ever so gently taking the head of
The emerging poem
Not quite sure what I will see
As this new being
Takes form
And marveling at the strength of
The brow
The eye, the nose, the swell of the lip
A word in the breath
The finger and toe of each
Impossible sentence
Making a miracle of the
Expectant world.
(Previously published in Words-Myth, Issue #6, Spring 2007)
Laurence Overmire
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