by Renee Overstreet | Feb 15, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Renee Overstreet
Insidious childlike angelic pest adorned with pewter black wings must you make such nauseating spectacles of foolishly smitten human beings? Grotesquely flaunting gaudiness in mouth-to-mouth displays of public affection so hideous I am blinded with dismay. Unearthly...
by Renee Overstreet | Feb 15, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Renee Overstreet
Baby, I can’t explain a lot of silly things I do. I can also feel the pain every time that I hurt you. My shortcomings must be difficult for your love to endure. But when you hold me in your arms I know that I am yours. I am yours in the morning when your hair...
by Renee Overstreet | Nov 17, 2013 | Poems, Renee Overstreet
I threw it away. Because it hindered me, plagued me with inadequacy, forced me to live with it stamped to my forehead, tattooed on my wrist like a slit across my vein. I banished it. from my meaningless life, divorced it, like a cheating wife, stomped it in a bed of...
by Renee Overstreet | Nov 12, 2013 | Poems, Renee Overstreet
My baby brother Petey is from another planet. If you don’t believe me you can ask my cousin Janet. Last Sunday’s Easter dinner withour great-Grandma June he omitted a smell so foul it completely cleared the room. He doesn’t have any teeth. His skin...
by Renee Overstreet | Nov 9, 2013 | Poems, Renee Overstreet
He might have bought you when he was a younger man Because that was the time we all had a plan A plantation of possibility A prosperous destiny This tobacco plantation will go down in history Not as a beacon of pride for my clan … This plantation of damnation is...
