Trying To Be A Champion

Trying To Be A Champion

pen and ink on Yupo

8 x 12 inches (with a wide border for framing)

This item is unmounted and unframed

A boy told me

if he roller-skated fast enough

his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,

the best reason I ever heard

for trying to be a champion.

What I wonder tonight

pedaling hard down King William Street

is if it translates to bicycles.

A victory! To leave your loneliness 

panting behind you on some street corner

while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,

pink petals that have never felt loneliness,

no matter how slowly they fell.  - NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

This piece is unframed. It will be carefully packaged in mostly repurposed shipping materials. 

​This item is an original work of art. Copyright owned by Lola Jovan