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Journey
of poems about her mother
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live 3/28/15 at Hyde Park’s Journey show

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the Messenger 2015 edit

Janet Kuypers
3/26/15
adapted from 2006’s “'the Messenger”


It’s strange,
I’ve never been close to dad

and he called me
from across the country
minutes after mom died

he told me I was the only child
he was calling
so it’s my job
to tell the brothers and sisters

so I scramble
to leave them messages somewhere
call cell phones
act calm
break the news to everyone

it’s my job to be the calm one
that’s what I have to do

left a message with my oldest brother
he called back shortly afterward
I told him the news
he started to break up immediately
then told me
“I have to hang up the phone now”

oldest sister called back
I told her the news
she just couldn’t believe it
mom was doing so well the day before
this doesn’t make sense

then she realized
what I had to be going through
that I had to be the messenger
that I had to be rational
and tell everyone that their mother just died

she’s my mother, too

asked me if there was anything
I needed
I couldn’t think of any words

I’m the messenger
and I couldn’t think of any words



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