1521: You Try To Fix It by Liz Ahl

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily · May 22, 2026 · 7m

Today’s poem is You Try To Fix It by Liz Ahl.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “As a child watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I remember being amazed by the Everlasting Gobstopper — a candy that a child could suck on forever, and it would never get any smaller. One of them would last a lifetime! In real life, manufacturers seem to do the opposite: They intentionally design things inexpensively, with an artificially limited lifespan, so they need to be replaced with a newer version. Today’s poem, though, was built to last.”

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