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Poetry by Laurence Overmire 

Laurence Overmire is an actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television.  His often socially important poetry has been published by Kimera to Poetry Down Under.  He lives in West Linn, Oregon.

 

 

 

© 2003  Laurence Overmire

 

 

 

Castor Oil

Art has to be foisted on people

 

Pushed through the doors of indifference

Stuck on billboards of vacant mind

 

Paid for in guilt, tax-free

Conscience of the inhospitable State

 

Otherwise

There will be no Art

 

Only the creativity of the void of

Cornering Markets.

 

 

 

 

Cogent

Word loaded

Shotgun wise

 

No powder puffed

On barren ground

 

Of intellect miss

Fired

 

Cap and hammer

Deep bore

 

Through bone and flesh

Death to life

 

In a moment

Revealed.

 

 

 

 

Shooting Ducks

The thing had no specific

Identifiable features by any known

Quantifiable standard or norm

Yet

They put a nice disparaging

 

Label

 

On it

To measure and

Distinguish their considerable

Contempt for what they

Imagined

To be true.

 

 

 

 

 

All poems are copyrighted property of Laurence Overmire.

 

 

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