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Isn’t That What It’s All About
    My curse is that after this accident I have the brains to know what happened to me, how bad it was, but that I survived it and now have to suffer with it, and to pick up the pieces and function on my own.
    I think that people think that when you get out of the hospital you must be FINE. Clean bill of health. They are so wrong.
    Now I feel like a soldier and I don’t know what I’m protecting any more. I want to give the enemy what he has been looking for. It’s a battle I am so often not willing to fight. Here. Take my weapons. You’ve stripped me of most of them now, so let me hand you the rest, freely. Let me have this, let me do this. Let me give this compilation of everything and nothing. Isn’t that what it’s all about?

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from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem <“Isn’t That What It’s All About” from her book “Rape, Sexism Life & Death” live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin, TX (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Isn’t That What It’s All About live 1/6/16 at Rad Radam Open Stage in Austin TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Things They Did to You”, “Isn’t That What it’s all About”, and “Left with a Hole” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” 12/15/18 @ “Recycled Reads” in Austin (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).