[the Writing of Kuypers] [JanetKuypers.com] [Bio] [Poems] [Prose]
What do we tell our youth
What does it say of us What does it say of our self-esteem
What does it say of our media
Dear What rights do we really take away
I hope you’re not suffering too much
Richard Speck, convicted of killing
When a menber of society commits a crime
in theory
One man in prison filed a lawsuit
What do we say to all of this
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read live 09/13/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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of the introduction to the 09/13/11 weekly poetry open mike she hosts live at the Café in Chicago, & her reading poetry (including this poem) from her ISBN# poetry book Contents Under Pressure
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read live 11/13/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago
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of the intro to the 11/13/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her poem “What Do We Say”
See YouTube video 1/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What Do We Say”, “Where To Go”, and “yearning to break frees” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
See YouTube video 1/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What Do We Say”, “Where To Go”, and “yearning to break free” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
What do we say
when we let them out on probation
for violent crimes
because there’s no room in our jails
when a painting of a clown
by John Wayne Gasey
sells for millions
when hundreds of women write letters
to Charles Manson
asking for his hand in marriage
when it glorifies these
dark heroes
Hero
I want to know how your mind works
I want to know why you did it
I want to know how you feel about politics
and love
and marriage
I hope you’re not suffering too much
I love you
from those who take our rights from us?
eight nurses, was videotaped in his
prison cell by cell mates with his
male lover, counting hundred
dollar bills, snorting mounds of
cocaine,
showing off his hormonally-
induced shapely breasts
they relinquish the rights
they have taken from others
against the state
for serving peas to him too many
days in a row
One man in prison filed a lawsuit
against Ann Landers
because she published his letter
where he wrote he killed his wife
One man in prison filed lawsuit
after lawsuit against the state
solely because he felt a great joy
in uselessly spending
the taxpayers’ money
What do we say?
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