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Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show Dreams (2/3/04)

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 9” (1:52) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See this YouTube video (1:50) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “He Told Me His Dreams 9” from the television screen broadcast from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking With You”, “Watching You”, “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, and “He Told Me His Dreams 9” from her book “Chapter 38 v1” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Walking With You”, “Watching You”, “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, and “He Told Me His Dreams 9” from her book “Chapter 38 v1” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 January/February 2019 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (PL2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her haiku and short poems “Every Step”, “Left Living”, and “knees”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “He Told Me His Dreams 1”, “He Told Me His Dreams 4”, “He Told Me His Dreams 9”, “Headache”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, “Last Before Extinction”, and “Packing” from the Down in the Dirt v. 162 1-2/19 ISBN# book “Fallen Kingdom”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (tPL T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

he told me his dreams 9 She said: Do you know that feeling you get when you’re starting to fall asleep and then suddenly you feel like you’re falling very quickly and you instantly wake yourself up? Everyone gets that feeling sometimes when they sleep. Did you know your body does that on purpose? You see, it happens when you’re very tired and your body starts to fall into a sleep state at too fast a speed. Your heart rate, your breathing shouldn’t slow down that fast. So your body makes you feel like you fall so you’ll wake up, feel a little tense, and fall asleep more slowly. He said: No, no, that’s not what I’m talking about. I know that feeling, but what I’m talking about is being in a dream and going to the edge of a cliff and jumping. She said: Well, what happens? Do you land? He said: Sometimes I wake up before I land, sometimes I land gently and live. You’ve never had a dream like that before? She said: No. He said: Why do I have dreams like this? Why this cliff? Why do I fall? How do I land? Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.