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Replace the negative with a positive.

This is all that is needed to rewire the brain.

wanna laugh in her face

wanna say oh babe bless ya

with ya pencil skirt

and ya ironed blouse

and your years of studying for something that,

excuse my language, is a load of absolute pissing shit stains.

My brain is gonna take more than some bloody positivity

to make it hang amongst the sparrows

and that’s ok I don’t mind

don’t try telling me that all this ‘yes I can and yes I will

and I deserve I deserve I deserve’ Oprah Winfrey bollocks

is gonna leap me into a place full of fantastic opportunity

where lungs are pink and snails sing harmonies,

I mean I’m too old for all that crap.

Instead I smile, alright, great, yeh, thanks.

She gives me a dark green notebook,

asks me to write down every negative thought

replace it with a positive one,

or at least a positive answer

to a negative question that plagues me,

such as: