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they were from the russian neighborhood
they would pick up an iron. “how much?”
it was a warm indian summer day
they would point at the iron, a toaster,
and all the old couples wore raincoats
they would pick up a wine glass. “how much?”
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read live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Russians at a Garage Sale (from the book Blister & Burn) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Russians at a Garage Sale (from the book Blister & Burn) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago
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).
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).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her poems “Cast in Stone”, “Death”, “Children, Churches and Daddies”, and “Russians at a Garage Sale” from her “Book Expo 2013 Chicago” reading 11/24/13, then her haiku poems “enemies”, “faith”, “ants and crosses”, “census”, “easy”, “existence”, “falling”, and “eventually”, from her “Unlucky 13 on St. Patrick’s Day” reading 3/17/14 , all appearing in her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v 2)”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was recorded from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
russians at a garage sale
at our annual garage sale this year
all these old couples came walking by
they could barely speak english
“four dollars.” “fifty cents?" “no.”
we were all clad in shorts and sunglasses
a blender. “all for a dollar?” “no.”
and scarves wrapped around their heads
“twenty-five cents.” “how about ten?”
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