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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN#/ISBN# issue/book “Question Everything” cc&d, v280 (the February 2018 issue) Order this as a 6"x9" paperback book:  |
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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: “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” of new & classic poems about independence, in many different forms performed live 7/1/17 in an Austin Texas show @ the Bahá’í Faith Center, read to Hotel Music “amongst hills” by the HA!Man of South Africa. |
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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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| Xerostomia
Janet Kuypers 6/4/17 I had to have that tie to you. I would draw your face, since we’re apart. I need to solve my xerostomia, so finally when I got the chance I took your photo in the crowded room. I know I’ll never meet you — but I needed to have that record of you. I needed proof that you were real. This photo is truth — this photo is certainty. I developed the film; dodged and burned out all the people around you who didn’t matter — ancillary people, nobodies to me. Started printing your image on my black and white printer. Everything’ll be so crystal clear when everything’s in black and white. They say I need independence from you, but I made more prints bumped up the contrast reduced you to mere two tone prints. I kept printing, kept plastering your image everywhere I could — until all I saw were images of you, and all I saw were replicas of you. I stared at copies of your face... and I wasn’t free. That’s when I knew that I forgot the substance of you for me. |
