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why me
I beg for attention
so I keep giving you
but I’m not a damsel
because even though I hate you
Listen live from the 3/3/02 CD
& the Chicago 9/10/02 performance
art show Stop. Look. Listen.
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from the show Stop. live 9/10/02 in Chicago
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including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive
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of a 10 minute portion of the 9/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece
Listen: (1:05) to this recording from Fusion, or order this track, or any track, off the CD Fusion at iTunes
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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe
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read live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
See Complete feature video of Kuypers live 09/06/11, at the Café open mike in Chicago, performing readings (including this writing) from the book Contents Under Pressure
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram
See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”
from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
run faster
why do I keep doing this to myself
why do I keep coming back
and I don’t know how to stop
and I don’t know how to be alone
one more chance to make it perfect
one more chance to save the damsel
and I’m not being rescued
and I’m not feeling any better
I’ll never let go
so you’ll just have to run faster
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