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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem We’re Trying 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem We’re Trying 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

We’re Trying I don’t want to tell everyone under the sun about what is happening to my mother right now, but I have to let people know why I may not be running at full speed. So I tell people that I’ve have a lot on my plate recently, and I may say as much as I’ve just heard some terrible family news and I try to leave it at that. But every time I tell someone something like this, I always get the same reply: “Sorry about family news, I hope not too serious and that it gets better soon.” or “I hope that week of bad news gets followed by a week of good.” And these well-wishers mean well, I understand that, but every time I get a response like this I want to just fall apart because no, there won’t be any “week” of good news, and yes, it is serious, far too serious, and no, it won’t get better soon, it will only get worse much, much worse and I can’t respond to these people, I have to just bottle it all up and think, well, they’re trying, it’s not enough sometimes for some of us, but we’re trying. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.