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You see, the owners of the house
Now, I don’t think
All I remember is being upstairs,
So I was crawling along the hallway floor,
But I had to look like I was
But all I know is that
•••
But I thought people were far enough away,
•••
Of course, I’m crawling around
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of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13
“Aeon Flux Crawl” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading
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the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads”
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2018 Book Release Reading 9/5/18, where she read her “Chicago Calling” poems “Tribal Scream”, “the Power of the Devil”, “We’re Not Making Any More Appointments”, “All My Problems Disappear”, “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl”, “Taking Out the Brain”, “How I Imagine You”, “After the Wreckage”, and “Waiting for You” from the poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, in Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).
Dreams 12/24/05:
We were out of town,
Aeon Flux Crawl
I don’t know for how long,
And someone told us
That we could stay at this other
really cool house
For another night
If we needed a place to stay
Were out of town
For at least another day,
So it would be okay
If we stayed there
We were actually
allowed to stay there
So we had to keep the lights off
And keep quiet
And everything was open,
Seeing the floor-to-ceiling windows
And seeing people outside
must have been neighbors
Enjoying the night air
And partying outside
Trying not to be seen,
But I was being sly, crawling
With my hands on the ground,
But keeping the rest of my body in the air
you know, for ease of movement, I suppose,
Crawling around like Aeon Flux
In that MTV movie
That wasn’t true to the cartoon storyline,
Crawling, but not touching the carpet
As if the pieces of carpet
Were like millions of individual
Blades of glass
I was doing
This levitating Aeon Flux
Crawling thing
To try to see around the house
And not get seen
And we were told we could use the house,
we didn’t break in, someone let us in,
And I think I saw a Jacuzzi in the back yard
So I went to tell you,
So we could enjoy the hot water.
But I found you, in the master bedroom bed,
Sound asleep.
Like Aeon Flux,
And you’re sleeping.
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