Don’t Believe Everything You Think

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Don’t worry be happy – that old trope

Believe life is walking a tightrope

Everything is gonna be alright

You must always push the envelope

Think plan prepare action beyond hope

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(A Bumper Sticker Poem)

Bumper Sticker Poems – a form I created, inspired by cento and golden shovel poetry, with the following guidelines:

• Using a bumper sticker as inspiration use the words in the bumper sticker as the first word in each line of the poem
• The theme of the poem may or may not have anything to do with the message of the sticker

• Title should be the words of the bumper sticker
• Should be rhymed
• 9 syllable lines
• Number of lines depends on number of words on the bumper sticker