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An inspirational poem about staying stoic.

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Don’t Look Down

Don’t look down, maintain that tightrope traipse
Ignore that you’re a blob on a rock in space
And a slim Darwinian coinflip let you exist in the first place.
These ruthless apes frustrate, so keep the faith.

Don’t look down when you can’t keep chill about the daycare and doctor’s bills
When all your friends seem to be on Bondi Beach holidays, eating Instagram food truck satay
When prices rise like an incoming tide and your income ain’t gone up since two thousand five
Born millennial, with fuck-all, everything seems to scream without a loan for property overpriced you won’t survive.

But don’t look down and doubt your little miracles. They’ll light your day with rainbow fingerpaint
Then go from gleeful squeals to meningococcal in the brain whether or not you pray
Yo - don’t conclude the earth’s a black and unforgiving place
all earthquakes and fates undeserved. Gets worse
if you look down and lose faith.


Some days nice guys finish thousandth place
while snakes get to golden parachute away
Other days you wake and the news is nothing but nooses, another Robin Williams gone,
another Bourdain, Cornell or Chester Bennington.
Water and air are free but there’s no land left to live on.

Survive that tightrope life. Don’t let malice upset your balance.
Leave imposter syndrome at home.
Pour your heart out on Wednesdays to strangers on a stage.

Recycle. Exercise. Admire the skyline. Be grateful for rain.
Don’t let WINZ get under your skin. Don’t scream at redneck letters to the editor in vain
Balance pride in the left hand, regrets on the right
Good times behind, and eyes on the other side.

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from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems, released March 7, 2021

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Michael Botur Whangarei, New Zealand

Michael Botur is a New Zealand poet and fiction writer of European heritage. He is author of ten books and has won a bunch of bigshot writing awards.
'Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems' collects 15 years of spoken word verse from one of NZ's most dynamic young poets. Perfect for anyone who loves the personal mixed w the political, a little bit of hip hop and plenty of attitude.
www.nzshortstories.com ... more

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