Quarantine Quashed My Creativity

But I did become fluent in British slang

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.” -Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That.

I started 2020 so excited about possibility. The previous fall, I’d traded cowboy boots for platforms, ready to take a hit of that New York freedom; and it was truly intoxicating. I’d walk through Union Square belting Amy Winehouse, or parkour off a bodega wall, and no one gave a fuck. I paired socks and Chacos with men’s blazers and called it streetwear. I once sobbed…