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Watch this YouTube video live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02

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Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set) now available directly through amazon!

Listen Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set that can be ordered any time at iTunes.

Watch this video read live 3/12/02 at Cafe Aloha from the Internet Archive You can also listen to this live recording as a (low quality) Macintosh .aif file, a (low quality) Linux .au file, an mp3 file, a (low quality) wav file or even as a real audio (.ra) file, performed live at Cafe Aloha 03/12/02.

Watch the YouTube video (1:39) live, Mercury Cafe, Chicago 11/30/07

Watch this YouTube video (2:10) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD 08/14/07

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading Present and Past and Burning Building at the open mike 3/28/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/19/17 of her reading her poems “x-raying metal under my skin”, “Burning Building” and “What Women Want” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 2/19/17 of her reading her poems “x-raying metal under my skin”, “Burning Building” and “What Women Want” at the Austin “Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken and Heard” open mic (this video filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v343 3/24 cc&d issue/book “Clear Lake” poems “Burning Building” (+ showing show image), “Mixing Metaphors” (+ showing show image), & “Timing is Everything” to start her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Samsung S9 camera & GLITCH; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Burning Building Janet Kuypers 03/30/98 This is what you don’t allow me to say. These words I utter are a plea for help and you tell me you want to be the hand that pulls me from the burning building and every time I try to be rescued you turn your back and walk away so I will rescue myself this time again and I will wonder if I should stop trying and allow myself to perish in the flames now all I have to do is sit and wait for another disaster to consume me and sitting in silence is exactly what I’ll do Why do you tell me one thing and do another? Why do you run away when I need you most? I’m stepping over the wooden beams now, and the flames are all around me. Here, look at the blood dripping from my arms. Here, smell my flesh burning. This is what you do. I do not walk away unscathed. I never do. But now that I wait for my next burning building I know I will never allow myself to enter it. Why can’t it be easier to perish? I try and try, and every time at the last minute, my figure steps over the the charred remains and saves me. If only there were no more burning buildings. If only I didn’t have to save myself all the time. If only I could feel free, just this once. If only I could feel safe with you, just this once. If only your words weren’t empty promises. If only your words were not the burning building. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.