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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Why Am I Infected 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Why Am I Infected 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Why Am I Infected

Janet Kuypers
3/28/89

Why am I infected
with this terrible disease?
I grasp and reach for straws —
but there is no cure
but death itself

Is it a gift
or more of a curse?

It is a disease
that you cannot combat

Why am I infected
with this terrible disease
called life


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