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Never before seen on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Communication ‘05” (written in 1997, edited in 2005) from her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See this Archive video of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry in her performance art show “Conflict • Contact • Control” (23:21) live 4/1/05 at the DvA art gallery in Chicago, with background music (by AmJaz for the DMJ Art Connection) and her artwork, including her poems “Kurt Irons (it’s Just A Girl)”, “The Men At The Construction Site”, “Women’s Very Existence”, “White Knuckled”, “And What I Want To Know”, “And I’m Wondering”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “Athena”, “Military Police”, “Too Far”, and “Communication ‘05” (from the Internet Archive, this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Listen (or listen live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control, or buy ANY track off the CD through Amazon Music.

Get this on Poetic Pieces - a CD of poetry & editorials for only $14.99 (with free shipping!).

See YouTube video (8:18) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

See the YouTube video of a compilation of ALL of the pieces performed in the 6/21/07 “Uncorrect” show at Jesse Oaks, including the poems “The Way You Tease Me”, “The Battle At Hand”, “Looking For A Worthy Adversary”, “Grab The Other’s Neck”, “Being God”, “Weren’t Even Married”, “God Eyes”, Communication ‘05, and “Andrew Hettinger” in Gages Lake, IL.

See YouTube video (4:05) live 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success JK poetry show

See the full YouTube show live JK poetry show w/ gutar 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success with “Type A Person” & “Communication”

See YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

See YouTube video (5:56, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

See YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

See YouTube video (34:48) of Kuypers in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 with this writing at Swing State

communication ‘05 Janet Kuypers   I now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before our pleas become computer blips tiny bits of energy travelling through razor thin wires travelling through space to be left for someone to decipher when they find the time   II i checked my email address book recently, and the people i email the most are the people that live in the same city as me, all of whom i know the phone numbers of, all of whom are only a local call away. in fact, one of my friends lives a block- and-a-half away from me, on the same street as me, but i still email her as much as i call her, even though i could just walk over to her house and have an actual conversation with her.   III now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before but what if we don’t want to communicate or forget how too busy leaving messages, voice mails, emails, pager numbers forgetting to call back what if we forget how to communicate   IV i got a program for my computer it’s a phone book program, and it sorts people by name or company, lists their phone number, and has a complete file for them where you can store their birthday, their address, past addresses and phone numbers, faxes, email addresses, there’s room for any information you want to store about them and i love this program, i’ve created a file with all the phone numbers i’ve ever needed, i always add information to this file, i keep a copy of it on my computer at home, on my computer at work, on my laptop, even on a floppy disk, in case there’s a fire at work and my hard drive at home crashes but it always seems that every time i desperately need a phone number i’m nowhere near a computer any computer   V now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before people want to instant message people buy their name as a domain name people get e-mail accounts people set up web pages and you know, I got a cell phone I’ve got a land line but my phone isn’t ringing off the hook it’s like I’ve gone fishing, sat on the boat in the lake, put out the bait and no one’s biting   VI i wanted to get in touch with an old friend of mine from high school, vince, and the last i heard was that he went to marquette university. well, that was five years ago, he could be anywhere. i talked to a friend or two that knew him, but they lost touch with him, too. so i searched on the internet, to see if his name was on a website or if he had an email address. he didn’t. so i figured i probably wouldn’t find him. and all this time, i knew his parents lived in the same house they always did, i could just look up his parent’s phone number in the phone book, and call them, say i’m an old high school friend of vince’s, but i never did. and then i realized why. you see, i could search the internet for hours and no one would know that i was looking for someone. but now, with a single phone call, i’d make it known to his entire family that i wanted to see him enough to call, after all these years. and i didn’t want him to know that. so i never called.   VII now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before but then the question begs itself: who is there to listen Copyright © 2005 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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