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See YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

See YouTube video performed for C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) in Nashville 12/20/08

See YouTube video read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Equality Manifesto” (written February 26th, for the anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “This you Don’t Hate” (originally in v101 cc&d) and “How Do I Explain It” (originally in the cc&d v105-116 book Rinse and Repeat), both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/22/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Equality Manifesto” (written February 26th, for the anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, then her poems “This you Don’t Hate” (originally in v101 cc&d) and “How Do I Explain It” (originally in the cc&d v105-116 book Rinse and Repeat), both read from her cc&d volume 2 poetry collection book “a Wake-Up Call from Tradition”, live 2/22/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

This you don’t hate. From the picture window the snow drizzling down fell effortlessly, silently: I wondered if outside it was as quiet as it looked. The snow blanketed the grass, past the pier his father made last summer, out over the lake. Everything glowed in an untouched whiteness. No footprints yet. Just falling snow. From the couch I looked at the larger-than-life snowflakes fall, one after another, all gently gliding down to the ground. I could not look away. And you said: This is why I like winters. See, you hate winter in the city, but this, this you watch for hours and don’t get tired of. This makes you smile. This you don’t hate. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.