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Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera#1, 07/06/09

See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera#2, 07/06/09

Watch the full show of One Acts (camera#1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive

Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera#2)... from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Leather Jacket” and “The Joshua Tree” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Leather Jacket” and “The Joshua Tree” (2 poems read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” at Austin’s Recycled Reads 7/15/17 (video filmed from a Sony camera).

Leather Jacket Faded Away In The Morning Fog Janet Kuypers 1/6/89 at five-thirty in the morning I sat in the kitchen straining to swallow the tears and you raced to get your luggage into your truck my mind wandered to the candles the roses the pizza and all I could think was that the best chapter of my meager life was coming to a pathetic end I looked at you in your leather jacket and you took my hand and led me to dance I really didn’t mean to but I couldn’t help but cry for the idea of our last dance destroyed me as you drove away I dreamt that you came back and said you wouldn’t leave but as the car lights faded away in the morning fog and you tuned the corner I fell to the floor screaming and crying I had no one to blame but circumstance and I couldn’t fathom going on Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.