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when the lights go down and it's you in the ring

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Published: Aug 16, 2014

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_{Optimism is not a sweetened cake.
Optimism is a decision you make
when your mind’s been on fire for five years straight
and sometimes you have to make it thirty-seven times a day
again and again and again.

When you were six your dad told you this:
you have to learn to fall the right way
and roll over, keep your wits sharp, get up again;
keep your belly guarded just the same.

So I fight and fight back for survival’s sake.
This is the decision I make.
This is the decision I make.
This is the decision I make again.}