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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Torture & Triumph ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Listen to a live track off the CD and performance art show “Dreams” 2/3/04 - or get ANY track off the CD “Dreams” through itunes.

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

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood” (1:21) from the 2/3/04 “Dreams” poetry and video and art show in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Watch this YouTube video (:52) from the Poetry Fest 2006 Lake County Poets Society practice performance, live 08/22/06

see the entire performance at the Lake County 08/22/06 Prep Show live, via the Internet Archive

Listen to the full show or the poem read live as the final scheduled feature 08/26/06 for the Society of Professional Journalists show thru Chicago Poetry Fest ‘06.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem People’s Rights Misunderstood from the collection book Oeuvre live 9/25/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S, with the Film Age - Older filter)

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Transcribing Dreams Three”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood” and “Dreams 01/28/07 (Seeing Mom)” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Transcribing Dreams Three”, “People’s Rights Misunder- stood” and “Dreams 01/28/07 (Seeing Mom)” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix; Cyan).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Transcribing Dreams Three”, “People’s Rights Misunder- stood” and “Dreams 01/28/07 (Seeing Mom)” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix; Posterize).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Transcribing Dreams Three”, “People’s Rights Misunder- stood” and “Dreams 01/28/07 (Seeing Mom)” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” at “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix; Threshold).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “The State of the Nation”, “The Deep End”, and “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” during “Poetry Aloud” to a live audience (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 7/14/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poems “The State of the Nation”, “The Deep End”, and “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 38 v1” during “Poetry Aloud” to a live audience (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” (written 1/21 on Martin Luther King Jr. day) that will appear in her August 2019 poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry”, then her cc&d v79 reprint Letters to the Editor poem “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, then her “(pheromones) haiku, Twitterverse, Instagram & poetry” poem “For Far Too Many Years”, read also because the cc&d 1-6 2019 issue and chapbooks collection book “a Revolution of Modern Life”, live 6/30/19 at “Spoken and Heard” @ Kick Butt Coffee in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2019 Book Release Reading 7/3/19, where she read her poem “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “the Carpet Factory, the Shoes”, all from the “Letters to the Editor’ section of the re-release of cc&d v79 May 1996 retro-release titled “Poetry and Prose”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore, including this poem (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video live 10/19/19 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase”, where Janet Kuypers read poems from a variety of books in multiple rounds to the live audience at the bookstore, including this poem (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opens the Way”, “Other People’s Worlds”, and “I Want Love”, her prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” and “Scars”, her poems “the State of the Nation”, “People’s Rights Misunderstood”, and “The Carpet Factory, The Shoes”, in set 1 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

people’s rights misunderstood I had a dream the other night I was walking down the street in the city and a man came up to me a skinny man, he lost his hair and he walked right up to me and told me no one cares anymore and he took my hand and asked me to care about him “I’m not supposed to be like this” he said “I’m not homeless, you know I have AIDS” and I wanted to tell him that someone did care, that he didn’t have to die alone, but you know how sometimes you can’t do things in your dream no matter how hard you try, well, my mouth was open, wide open, but no words were coming out and you know, I’m afraid to go to sleep tonight I’m afraid I’ll be walking down that street in the city I’m afraid that a pregnant woman will come up to me and ask me for a hanger and I’ll tell her there has to be another way and she’ll say this is the way she chooses I’m afraid I’ll be walking down that street in the city and a woman will come up to me and tell me she doesn’t want to live because she’s just been raped and her world doesn’t make sense anymore and I’ll tell her that she can make it that one in three women are raped in their lifetime and they all make it and besides, the world doesn’t make sense to anyone and she’ll say that doesn’t make me feel any better and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to walk down that street in the city again without it looking like a Quentin Tarantino movie where everyone is pointing guns at each other yes, Mr. NRA you are right I feel so much safer knowing everyone out there has a gun that there are more gun shops than gas stations and that everyone is so willing to do the killing why do my dreams have to be so much like real life I’ve got to stop dreaming of that damned street Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

You can also pick up the CD containing this poem (through “Rough Mixes”) for sale at Amazon.com.

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