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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers in the cc&d free 2016 PDF file chapbook: Thoughts on Peace of new poetry & edited classic poems live 8/6/16 at Austin’s the Bahá’í Center Click the title or the cover to download the free PDF file chapbook. |
 
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Order this Janet Kuypers writing in the one-of-a-kind volume “Chapter 48 (v2)” Order this one-of-a-kind volume of performance art poetry shows from 2011-2018 from Janet Kuypers as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book from Amazon throughout the U.S., the U.K. and all of Europe today! |
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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers by clicking the title or the cover from the cc&d free 2018 PDF file chapbook: “to the Bottom of the Earth and Back” a chapbook of poetry written by Janet Kuypers over many years, read live in Chicago 9/26/18 in her feature at the “In One Ear” open mic. |
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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN# / ISBN# issue/book “Some Things Are Universal” Down in the Dirt v208 (6/23)  Order the paperback book: 
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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers by clicking the title or the cover from the cc&d free 2023 PDF file chapbook: “What the Animals Think” a chapbook of poetry written by Janet Kuypers, hard copies given as a gift to “Animal Tales” hosts of animal-themed poems performed 4/29/23 in Salado, TX. |
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(2016 cruelty to animals edition) Janet Kuypers 8/2/16 additions to the beginning of a 1995 poem I had a dream the other night And in it I walked out of the city to a farm road where the square acres of living land just started to bloom displaying a colorful checkerboard quilt as far as the eye could see I walked along the empty road next to the crops at three thousand south and a small little pig walked right up to me now, this little pig didn’t look like a farm pig, he looked like a ten inch pot-belly pig and he walked right up to me and he said thank you for not using cosmetics tested on animals, I know you humans are pretty smart, so there’s gotta be a way to make yourselves pretty without killing me and I said, I think the companies don’t worry about the animals unless the chemicals are toxic, meaning it’s toxic to humans the little pig then snorted which lives are worth saving, the little pig then said cut-throat corporations don’t answer questions like that, I said. And he said I know. But thank you anyway. * Yeah, I had a dream the other night I walked out of the city to a forest and there were neatly paved bicycle paths and trash cans every fifty feet and trash every ten and then a raccoon came right up to me she had a few little baby raccoons following her, it was so cute, I wish I had my camera and she spoke to me, she said, thank you thank you for not buying furs, I know you humans are pretty smart, you have to be able to figure out a way to keep yourselves warm without killing me and I said, you know they don’t do it for warmth, they do it for fashion, they do it for power. And she said I know. But thank you anyway. * Then I walked a little further and there was a stray cat she still had her little neon collar on with a little bell and she walked a few feet, stretched her front paws, oh, she looked so darling and then she walked right up to me and she said thank you and I said for what? And she just looked at me for a moment, her little ears were standing straight up, and then she said, you know, in some countries I’m considered a delicacy. And I said how do you know of these things? And she said when somebody eats one of you word gets around and then she looked up at me again and said, and in some countries the cow is sacred. Wouldn’t they love to see how you humans prepare them for slaughter, how you hang them upside-down and slit their throats so their still beating hearts will drain out all the blood for you and she said isn’t it funny how arbitrary your decision to eat meat is? and I said, don’t put me in that category, I don’t eat meat and she said I know — and then I woke up in a sweat. |
