Poem for Confidence from Stone Cold Steve Austin’s “Austin 3:16”

“And that’s the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so!”
-Stone Cold Steve Austin to Dok Hendrix,
June 23, 1996
I want to be
without doubt
all thunder
and courage
a king
that’s all
a champion
and so
Josh Shepard (he/him) is a poet and artist living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His work can be found most recently or upcoming in Waxwing, Bureau of Complaint, The Lunch Break Zine, cool rock repository, and Slipstream. You can find him on Twitter @JoshShepard.