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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Have Nots Have Something
Not having
Is not necessarily
A bad thing
Is it?
If not having money
For example
Means no TV
'Tis a blessing, mark you me
If not having 'things'
Means having time
For family, for friends, then
Lucky you
In fact, I might propose
Not having all this 'stuff'
Could mean having
The best of life
For free.
(Previously published in The Oracular Tree, June 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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Hay Fever
I pulled the poem
Like a petal
From the flower of my heart
Offered it with open palm
The blood of the words
Trickling down the stem of my longing
She took it.
And sneezed.
(Previously published in The Pleasant Unicorn, Feb 2001; The Short North Gazette, Spring 2002)
Laurence Overmire
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Heads and Tails
Foolish humans we
must realize
(at our peril)
in the course of diminishing time
that
opposites are merely
different
unlike sides of the same
coin.
(Previously published in The Oracular Tree, Feb.2003; Poetry Soul to Soul, Jan.2005)
Laurence Overmire
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Hello. My Name is Paul.
Im a Parentsaholic.
Im addicted to dysfunction.
But Ive been sober now for six months.
Yes, thank you.
Thats how long its been since I last saw them.
Since the last perfectly horrible Christmas we spent together.
Dad went into a terrible vitriolic binge because the tree fell down
And the water seeped all over his stamp collection.
Mom burned the britches off the Gingerbread Men
And viciously ripped into my sister Sally for the next three days
For not properly setting the timer.
Me, well
I was having so much fun I started beating myself with a candy cane.
If we could have gotten the train to work, I probably would have tried electrocution.
But alas, that was not meant to be.
Anyway, Im glad Im here
And taking my first step with PA.
And I want to thank you right off the bat
For giving me
(something I never got at home)
Your support.
(Previously published in Stark Raving Sanity, May 2000, Issue 7; Sonata, Nov-Dec,2000)
Laurence Overmire
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