Trying

Great Gerwig as Frances Ha dances ballet on the street to David Bowie’s Modern Love.

Trying to write

Trying to study

Trying to be right

Trying to be somebody

Trying to read

Trying to run

a business, a seed

to plant a gun

Trying to have fun

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in a pandemic

while trying to outrun

the virus, don’t get sick

Trying to write without care

Oh Lorde!

Greta, Virginia , beware!

The rhyme fades in discord

Poetry so amateur

just trying to spitball

Such is human nature

Leap to fly or fall