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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Happy New Year, Janet” (with guitar by both John and Janet, fashioned from “Waiting (reprise)” by George Michael) in her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10 (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square) (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing the first third of her feature “New Year’s Unplugged” in Chicago 1/15/10, with Janet and John also playing background music throughout the show (at Regina’s Place in Logan Square), which included her poems “Have You Ever Had”, “Happy New Year, Janet” and “Helping Men in Public Places” (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’ Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Happy New Year, Janet”, “The First Death of the New Millennium”, and “Don’t Forget to Write” from the “New Year’s Unplugged” show and chapbook, “Swallowing Sand and Pebbles” from the “Twitter Inside” show and chapbook, and “Are they Invincible” and “Motions on the Planet” from the “Death ‘n’s Rebirth” show and chapbook, all read from the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/6/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Happy New Year, Janet December 31, 1998 So this is how the year ends for me I’ve got one guy interested in me Well, maybe two and I have another couple of million That, well, aren’t interested. Kind of like last year It’s a shame That I had to go through so much this year And it has all made me think That I should be doing more with my life And I should be experiencing more And I should be living more It’s like there is a little time bomb In my head and it wants to go off And now it’s just biding time I guess that is what I have been doing All of these years too So what do I have to show for it A few more scars Mental and physical That is a funny way to look at things, though the scars and I don’t know what I have to show for it All this time people have been telling me That I am worth it And that I have value And it is as if I just don’t want to listen Or I just can’t hear them That’s just how my mind works I guess that is how my life goes I’m one more year closer to the Millennium And I am one more year closer to death It’s like that in a way I have a timer I’m just waiting for everything to happen So, Janet, Happy New Year Hope it is better than last year And hope you get everything you want Happy New Year, Janet Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.