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live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unpluggedshow and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Insideshow and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirthshow and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unpluggedshow and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Insideshow and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirthshow and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Motions on the Planet

I don’t let anybody in to see me
to be a real part of my life
            I talk to people
            I get close to people
the only person that I can count on is me
I just need something that I can count on

what can I really lean on
what will never let me down
what will never desert me

nobody lives on this planet
people go through the motions

people are too afraid
to open themselves up
and they never get the chance
to really live

I don’t want to go through the motions
I want to live
but I’m afraid
if I don’t break out of my shell
I won’t see what the rest of the world is like
I wonder if I really want to know


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