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plush horse stories ice cream parlor, candy shop, bakery, 1986-1990 work stories his mom’s car there was this kid who started working at the plush horse, he was this fat little geek, thick glasses and everything, and most of the guys that worked there were older and not so awkward. well one of them, matt, decided to make it his personal goal to make fun of this kid whenever he could, god, i don’t even remember this kid’s name, something like mark or something, but i really can’t remember. i guess it doesn’t matter. but this matt guy really didn’t like him, and no one did, but i felt kind of sorry for the kid because matt was just so mean to him. i figured, okay, he’s a geek, he gets picked on enough, but this really isn’t necessary. well one day this kid came into the plush horse, and he wasn’t working that day, and i saw him come in, and he looked really mad, like i’ve never seen him this mad before. and so i ask him while he’s walking by, toward the ice cream counter, i ask, why are you so mad? and he says that someone keyed his car, messed up the paint job and everything, and the worst thing was it was his mother’s car. and then he walks to the ice cream counter and starts talking to matt and i can’t hear what they’re saying. so i’m minding my own business, and the next thing i know i hear the kid yell, right in the middle of this ice cream shop, he yells fuck you to matt, and he starts walking away. and matt says, yeah, that’s what i wrote on your car. and i remember looking at matt with such disgust when he said that, and after the kid left i told him that he just went too far. so then two weeks later i went to the grocery store with lisa and we bought a bottle of cheap dish washing liquid called Pink Lady, and we went to the parking lot of the plush horse while matt was working and we squirted the Pink Lady all over matt’s windshield. we figured that if he used washer fluid it would just make this big soapy mess, but at least there was no permanent damage. and the worst thing was that it was his mom’s car. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch this YouTube video listen: (1:11) read live 01/25/11 from the ISBN# & ISSN# book a Wake-up Call from Tradition, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 01/25/11 & the poems Getaway, Couldn’t Take It Home, His Mom’s Car, At Least That’s What I Hear, and Thinking. I Hate That.

Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

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

Listen (2:25, 07/03/11) Or watch the YouTube video (Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking) 07/05/11 at the Café

See feature-length YouTube video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems