Laurence Overmire
Crucible

Look at him 
Boiling there 
In the cauldron of being 
The skin burning away 
Raw flesh exposed 

Look at his face 
He doesn't want you to know 
But inside his eyes 
The pain, the brutal pain 
Tears falling silently 

But ha, look at his heart 
Red-hot and pure 
Blood gushing with hope 
Love on fire spilling out of his guts 
With no apologies. 
 

Movie Titanic

Did you see the movie Titanic?
Incredible special effects wrapped around a story of pure
Bullshit.
I prefer the truth myself.
But since when has Hollywood cared about truth?
The truth is Truth
Doesn't sell.
And as long as people need smoke and mirrors to get through the drudgery
of their disengaged lives
The Tinsel Town Boys'll keep blowin' it in our face.
Thumb's down and sinking, Roger.
 

Omega on Alpha 2

The vermin spread like humans across the planet
Consuming
Using
Without restoring or replenishing.
The other life forms were slowly driven to extinction
Leaving the pestilent invaders to devour themselves one by one
Till all that was left was a bleak, cold
Rock
Spinning in the solitude of space.
 

Laurence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked
on stage, film and television.  His poetry has been widely published in
the U.S. and abroad.  E-mail: undermud@att.net
07-99/09-00/