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video video watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)
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live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago
Listen mp3 file to this w/ the DMJ Art Connection
off the CD Chaos In Motion
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Russians at a Garage Sale”, “Private Lives 1”, and “Private Lives 4” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Russians at a Garage Sale”, “Private Lives 1”, and “Private Lives 4” from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v1” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (this video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Private Lives I

the elevated train,
Chicago, Illinois

why do these chairs
have to face
each other?
They say Americans
need their space
need their privacy
and here I sit
briefcase in lap
while he sits right
across from me
                    staring
I can’t
he has to see
my eyes darting
my tension
my privacy
in the edge of my vision
I see his dirty clothes
his dirty hair
dirty mind
will he watch me
get off
note the stop I take
watch me walk too


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