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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Listen to this track to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Indian Flux, or order this off the CD directly from iTunes.

Order this iTunes track from the poetry audio CD “Oh.” audio CD ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Order this iTunes track: from the poetry audio CDetc. ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes CD:

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Listen to the CD recording for the 06/11/02 performance art show 6/11

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “The Battle At Hand” (2:53, read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “etc.”) for the “UrbaNation” book release event live 2/22/04 at “the Red Lion” in Chicago (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem

Watch this YouTube video (3:33) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Battle At Hand, after she introduces the first day of the open mic she hosts in Chicago for over 5 years, live at the Cafe in Chicago 1/12/10.

Listen: (2:30) to this recording from Fusion

(2:41) from the 6/11 show 06/11/02 from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video live at 6/11 in Chicago 06/11/02

See YouTube video 7/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Battle at Hand, Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation), and Only an Observer at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 7/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Battle at Hand, Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation), and Only an Observer at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony camera).

See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 11/20/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everything is my Home”, “the Battle at Hand” & “Us, Actually Touching”, then Joe & Janet w/ her poem “Under the Sea” @ the Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/6/17 poetry show “Time to Start the Show” at “Honoring Open Mic Hosts” in Austin reading her poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook “Time to Start the Show” of her poems “the Bathroom at he Green Mill” “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” performed in her 5/6/17 Austin show about hosting poetry open mics.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading<

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Readings 11/1/17 from the cc&d 11/17 book “Warrior’s Light”, with her Time to Start the Show poems “the Bathroom at the Green Mill”, “Frozen Together”, “the Battle at Hand”, “On Ashes”, “Kick Someone Out” and “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

the Battle at Hand I wanted you to know that I was on a mission when I saw you and that I was a warrior and you were just a helpless victim that couldn’t fight my weaponry that wouldn’t fight my weaponry I would come in to town and pillage and rape and rape and pillage depending on how you put it and rape is such a hard word, you know, entirely inappropriate for this because I made sure that you wanted me before it was all over because I have a knack for doing that     when I fight my battles this is how I care to think of you. I was on a conquest and i came fully equipped with ammunition I had bayonets I had a rifle with rounds of bullets in a chain thrown over my shoulder I had a .22 caliber magazine loaded hand-gun I didn’t even need to use the hand-grenade or the tear gas even before i started using my tongue as a weapon with a kiss I used it as a weapon with words and I knew I had won you won over from the start you looked at me when I spoke and I think you might have actually wanted to listen to me and I would never have to resort to violence to get what I wanted from you we seldom had opportunities before and there wasn’t much of an opportunities here but we made one and we somehow made it work I know I wasn’t ready for a battle before but I want you to know that I came ready to fight and I didn’t care the circumstance or whether or not we had to be quiet     because we wouldn’t want anyone to find out     and no one did and no, it was not a momentous moment in my life it was just a moment a conquest, a battle, and in my own mind, I won the war you still thought I was beautiful and that I was horny did I create a little monster in you? now I’m going to have to re-arm myself and use my stockade of defenses to push you away but that is the cost of winning battles all the time, I guess you thought I would always want you and you know, I liked winning the battle, but I’ll have to work again so that you don’t come back to haunt me because we weren’t meant to be anything to each other and you were just a conquest for me a battle won people thought we would never get along. but I know better I know there is no such thing as NOT getting along with me and I know I can make anyone like me as I did with you you were easy prey, you know. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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