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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers in the cc&d free 2016 PDF file chapbook: Obey of new and older edited poems live 6/4/16 at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center Click the title or the cover to download the free PDF file chapbook. |
 
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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN# / ISBN# issue/book “the Statue” cc&d, v270 (the April 2017 issue) You can also order this 6"x9" issue as a paperback book:  |
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Order this Janet Kuypers writing from her most recent poetry book series: (pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems Order this 6" x 9" ISBN# perfect-bound book today of poems written mid-2015 - mid-2017 that were performed during her poetry shows & performances in Austin, TX
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Order this writing in the book On a Rainy Day (the 2017 poetry, longer prose & art collection anthology) |
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| Viewing the Woman in a 19th Century Photograph
Janet Kuypers I see the woman in the picture, I see their depiction of beauty — of something that couldn’t work that can’t work... I see the sepia toning, but I also see the dependency, and I see the degradation. My mind has been cluttered. I can’t see the women, I see the adornments of beauty the preposterous impractical way she has been made to be seen and not heard. She was forced with this image... And it most be a shame because now I’ve been tainted with the knowledge of society, with the knowledge of it’s motives. And now I can’t even see the beauty. I can only see the oppression. “Oh, it’s not like that anymore” they say. as I wipe the make-up off my eyelids and wonder who I’m trying to impress. |
