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Watch this YouTube video recovery poems “Changing Garments”, “Supposed To Be Done”, “Making Sense Out Of The Insane”, “Someone Give Me the Answers”, & “Feel So Much” read live at Lake Dememted Poets 03/23/02

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Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

Someone Give Me the Answers September 7, 1998 I don’t think I can respect people Can anyone give me the answers I’ve been looking for I’ve been looking, and none of the solutions are coming to me Have I been taught to be so different from the rest of the world Maybe I have been            Maybe I’m the one with the different answers, and maybe I don’t know where to begin. And maybe no one can help me through this My dictionary is older than my schooling and my encyclopedia set is older than I am I’ve been looking for answers to what I thought were simple questions and the people who are supposed to be smarter than I am never have the answers for me I’ve talked to a lot of people in my lifetime, and with each day that passes I lose more respect for the people I’ve known This doesn’t seem like a fair thing for me to admit I mean, to hear a woman complain about how awful everyone else is isn’t nice, fair or reasonable Maybe I’ve just had some bad breaks I don’t know what my excuses are, or what my reasons are--but the problem is that I don’t think anyone has a reason for the majority of the actions they engage in Or should I say commit instead of engage in I can’t even finish a sentence and I’m expecting finished sentences and sense and answers from all of the people I’ve already lost so much faith in But that’s enough about me I’ll get back to a more interesting subject right away I was recently in the hospital for 6 weeks When I regained consciousness, I was given the same meal three times a day Most every day I slept in the hospital, I was physically strapped to my bed so that I wouldn’t fall out of bed while trying to escape This is not meant as my defense against anyone’s actions, my own or others This was not an uncommon occurrence for my treatment I don’t know how anyone else was treated, but I am guessing I was one of at least 20 patients in the same institution, in the same ward, with the same teachers Take from this what you will Sometimes the answers don’t come easy The answers haven’t come to me for quite a while not since my accident, or since my hospital visits Not since most of my school days or since a lot of my friendships Maybe the events in my life haven’t given me the answers but maybe the events in everyone’s life also have missing answers. I don’t know where the answers are I don’t know where my answers were I’ll try to find the answers one day, and if anyone can help me, let me know *** edited: my dictionary is older than my schooling my encyclopedia set is older than I am I’ve been looking for answers to what I thought were simple questions and the people who are supposed to be smart never have the answers and never seem to know when I regained consciousness, I was given the same meal three times a day I was physically strapped to my bed the answers haven’t come to me for quite a while not since my hospital visits or my school days or my friendships someone give me the answers I don’t know where the answers are Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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