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Listen Listen to & download this track from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD “The Things They Did To You”.

See YouTube video (1:39) Live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 11/30/07

See YouTube video Live at Taking Poetry to the Streets, live in New Orleans 12/28/08

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/24 “The Limits of Language” book poems “a Stand-Off” (+ showing “The Messenger” 11/30/07 image), “Civil War”, & “The Moon” (+ showing “Disenfranchised Doggerel” 7/31/09 show image collage) during her “Poetic License 8/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense. Enjoy this Facebook live video stream (Samsung S9 camera; Color Film filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

a stand-off Too many things bombard us we scan from channel to channel eyes darting, first war, destruction, then a weight loss commercial. I know you’re thinking society is ludicrous - and it is - but don’t you see that when I watch that t.v. screen all I see is that I’m not thin enough? I’ve tried to make things right with us. I’ve tried to bring us one glimmer of happiness, I’ve tried to turn off that media mudslinging tried to make things a little better even if it is only in our bedroom and even if it is only for one night. And you, you look away and think I’m hopeless. I’m grasping at whatever straws are left. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.