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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Against My Will live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Against My Will live 4/9/14 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Against My Will”, “I Don’t Want To” and “How do I Explain It” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads Public Library book store 7/15/17 (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Against My Will”, “I Don’t Want To” and “How do I Explain It” (read for the future Oeuvre audio CD release) at Austin’s Recycled Reads Public Library book store 7/15/17 (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

Against My Will There have been so many times Where I have been raped Not that some man Some quote unquote man Had physically held me down Has forced himself inside me Against my will That way is just to obvious Not the “someone tried To beat me up” thing Because that is old news If you have done the research I have If you have gone through what I have If you have lived the life that I have Because You know I should be above this I should be a feminist With a capital fucking F I guess with that in mind I should not mind the cat calls Or the whistles Or the fact that the word “woman” Is the word “man” With a couple of letters tacked on Like how “she is “he” with an “s” Like we’re an extension of them Or the fact that men First look at me By looking at my breasts And not my eyes I should be aware That a woman with power Instills fear And a woman with power in a company Can still be demoted outside of the company Where she can still be down-played I can handle the jokes About being a blond Or being dumb Or being both I can hear the line Always said insultingly That we HAVE to be irrational Because we are so damn emotional I mean How can you trust something That bleeds for five days every month And doesn’t die? Fine If they want to brush off Everything that makes us strong Fine If they say we can not hold a job Fine We will just depend on you for money And work on our OWN jobs On our OWN time And stash enough away for our OWN little nest-egg And how much money are you boys going to have when it comes to the end of your family line? How much of a life are you boys going to have when it comes to the end of your family line? How much happiness? * Note that “Feminist with a capital F” is from a poem by Joanna Marshall. Also note that “End of your family line” is is reference to “The End of The Family Line” by Steven Morrissey. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.