Best Bootstraps Poems

Have you ever met those kind of blokes who get upon your nerve,
when they quote continual references that most think should deserve
a threatening confrontation that...

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Knocked down

When I’m down I’m miserable,
But that won’t do at all,
Reef up yer bloody bootstraps, boy,
Walk tall, don’t bloody crawl.

Depression black has arrived,
Kick it up...

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I saw her the other day with  large bags at a coffee store           ...

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I wish I had...
      the power to change
      a broken man's circumstances. 
  ...

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I like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration,
Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world.
That's a new idea to her.
Gathering the neighborhood like family.
The men...

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Dangling; from the ledge of impervious fate
Blindfolded; step beyond the intangible gate
Blunders; veer around deceptive curves
Pull up those bootstraps; then tighten those spurs
Rely on the...

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When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile

Look at...

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It might be said of adolescence,
This is a stage demanding economic authority,
autonomous freedom to invest and disinvest,
without yet accepting concomitant political responsibilities,
to family
to community
to children
to...

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Gold is the color in the veins of that ore
and red is the color in the veins of war.
Bankers have bested alchemists of old
and found...

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You fueled the anger in my heart.
I never thought I could ever feel this way.
One fleeting moment in history,
That is all it took.
One ripple in...

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I flap, remembered
through treacherous gusts:
freedom dismembered
by old bloodline trusts

assuring collapse
with floods of treaties
prompting a relapse
of diabetes

bursting the synapse
in chemical sway,
tightening those bootstraps
till trust fades away....

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A problem for more successful Nazi leaders
during the early exterminating 1940s
was what would they be
should they no longer have any reason to war against
the soon...

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch

Waiter, hurry up with that brunch!

And tell my nursemaid to wax my toupee

Oh, barber be careful when you...

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It is hard to get any help,
When every man is for himself.
It is hard to gain wealth,
Working for someone else.
It is impossible to cultivate,
When seeds...

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I've come to the conclusion
That my life's a wreak
Poetry strewn all about
My house the biggest mess

So here I am in the middle of the den
In...

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