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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers by clicking the title or the cover from the cc&d free 2017 PDF file chapbook: Drop the Bomb of her chosen poems for potential reading at “Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb” outdoors at Graffiti Park |
 
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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: “Life and Death and Everything Between” a chapbook of poetry written by Janet Kuypers over many years, read live in Chicago 9/25/18 in her feature at The Gallery Cabaret. |
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| Echo in my Mind
Janet Kuypers 4/20/17 The thoughts of these women, the visions of these women, the legacies of these women, they echo in my mind. — I think of the woman who in her youth led armies to battle and saved her country. And for this she was burned at the stake because she was a woman, and she had beliefs. — I think of the woman who wore a black dress at the bride to her wedding — and no, it’s not because she’s goth like me, but because she had work to do, and she didn’t want to get her white wedding dress dirty. And yeah, she had work to do — she was discovering things scientists take for granted now, She was discovering things no man had yet to wrap his head around. — I think of the woman who lived in a time where she wasn’t allowed a higher education, so she studied for free, and she worked for free, made amazing scientific discoveries until she escaped Germany days before Adolf Hitler would have put her in a concentration camp. She carried a friend’s diamond ring while trying to escape, in case she needed to bribe someone to allow her to pass. And her drive, her work, gave the world Nobel-prize winning collaborations — despite the efforts of the Third Reich, and despite a patriarchy, all her life, that thought, she’s just a woman. She doesn’t need to learn. — I think of the woman who was in the first wave of women allowed to have higher education, but still, she left her communist home, searching for freedom. She started a life on the other side of the earth, because after what she learned, she knew that understanding philosophy could really set her free. — I think of the woman born not far from my home. She studied music, but wanted to share her story of life as a woman with the rest of the world. And through her journeys she stayed with a tribe when prisoners, armed with lawn mower blades, broke out of their jail cell while all she do was wonder, wait, and listen out into the jungle. During her travels she took mail planes until she was dropped off as far as she could before completing her solitary journey to the North Pole. As an Artist in Residence for NASA, she learned how men, during the cold war, thought of setting off nuclear bombs on the dark side of the moon. Of course, only a man would think of doing that. Once she was in a protest about the economic exploitation of women and the treatment of women as animals, giving flyers of images of chicks, bunnies, foxes and pussy cats. And she’s even said that “for every dollar a man makes, a woman makes 63¢. Now, 50 years ago that was 62¢ — so, with that kind of luck it will be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.” — And I think about what these women say, and I think about what these women mean, and like they say, “I could just go on and on and on... But tonight — I’ve got a headache.” |
