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Watch the YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera
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Watch the YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera
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video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera
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See feature-length YouTube
video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam
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See Janet KuypersYouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug<” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera).
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See Janet KuypersYouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).
plush horse stories
ice cream parlor,
candy shop, bakery, 1986-1990
work stories

ask me if i’m a truck

so i worked in the summer time
part time with about ten guys
(since guys were stronger, they
could scoop ice cream better,
that was the idea). but they all
screwed off when they were
at work. they’d always write up
signs and tape them to each
other’s backs. Once i wrote on
the back of candy box paper,
“i’m a boy with raging hormones”
and for about an hour every
customer had a good laugh at
matt’s expense. but my favorite
was put on john’s back once. you
see, john used to tell everyone
the same joke; he’d say to you,
“ask me if i’m a truck,” and when
you’d ask him if he was a truck,
he’d look real perplexed and say,
“no.” like, why did you ask him
that? so anyway, we got a sign
on his back once that said “ask
me if i’m a truck” and when all
the customers did he got real
confused. it was hysterical.


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the book Close Cover Before Striking