| 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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