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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN# / ISBN# issue/book “a Perfect Solitude” cc&d (v262) (the May 2016 issue, v262)  You can also order this 6"x9" issue as a paperback book:  |
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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers in the cc&d free 2016 PDF file chapbook: Bagdad Cemetery with a large variety of never-before performed poems live 4/24/16 at Bagdad Cemetery Click the title or the cover to download the free PDF file chapbook. |
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Order this writing in the book Clouds over the Moon the cc&d Jan. - June 2016 collection book |
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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers in the cc&d free 2017 PDF file chapbook: “Book Release & Book Reading” of poems chosen for a featured 3/1/17 poetry reading live at Half Price Books in Austin Texas (1-3PM) of poems in 3/1/17 book releases, plus past book poems Click the title or the cover for the chapbook. |
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| Koi Ponds and Concrete
Janet Kuypers 11/17/15 I need a new place, some hole in the wall I can call my own — what am I saying, a home that’s a hole in the wall — I want the best I can get... So before I saw this one place, they told me I’d either love it or hate it. So I saw the home with painted marble walls, a 30 foot tall living room wall. And I mean, the back yard even had tropical plants and a bridge spanning over one of two fully stocked koi ponds. Yeah, You heard me right. The place had Koi ponds. So yeah, on first glance I loved the place, so now it’s time to do a little research — sure, it was in my price range, but a trailer park is right across the street. And come to think of it, there are probably tons of code violations with the koi ponds, where the plastic retention water tanks were labeled “hazardous materials”. And speaking of code violations, all of the windows had metal gratings on them — isn’t that a fire department violation? And why did they have those metal gratings anyway? Then I was told the neighbors were isolationists who didn’t take too kindly to strangers (who’d probably have no problem with killing people for “violating personal space”). The more I think about it, the more afraid I get when after they tell me the house was owned by a single man, that I found one closet half filled with women’s formal dresses, and the only thing in their attic was a set of heavy restraints. And half the back yard was covered in concrete (which at first sounds great when you have no lawn mower), but if you test that concrete yard, can you find hollow spots? I’m beginning to think that at some point the cops will bust in with their warrants and concrete crushers to search for dead bodies. Now, as I said, I was looking for some hole in the wall I can call my home — but I don’t want cops digging holes in my home. Because this home should be MY hole in the wall, and I don’t want to find dead bodies everywhere unless I put them there myself. |
