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Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

See the full Getting Wired show video (8/8/09, from camera #1). This film is from the Internet Archive (from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

See the full Getting Wired show video 8/8/09 at a Chicago Starbucks (from camera two; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

this same track also is on Live at the Cafe, now available in a 3 CD set

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Watch this YouTube video (5:34) from the Chicago performance art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

see the entire performance of {Stripped} live 6/7/05 in Chicago, via the Internet Archive

See YouTube video 9/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Open Book”, “Key To Survival” and “Universe... Now In Color” live in downtown Austin’s one-time only reading at Brave New Books (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 9/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Open Book”, “Key To Survival” and “Universe... Now In Color” live in downtown Austin’s one-time only reading at Brave New Books (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Key To Survival “the poem of J” I Have you ever seen someone who has a flock of people around them and that someone is just naturally talking but people are attracted to them like moths to a flame people there are like sun tanning high-school girls facing this person’s bright light, wanting to soak them all in and hoping they’re more beautiful for it You see these people, everyone smiling, circled around this special someone it’s like an animal magnetism you can’t help but try to nudge in, to hear their words to try to get a little of that narcotic for yourself it’s like being a child again, with a ton of kids in a candy store where someone’s giving out free candy and all the kids are so thrilled and they’re grinning from ear to ear You haven’t even gotten close enough to hear their words, but you’re already starting to smile II have you ever seen someone standing at the corner of an intersection they look dirty and disheveled and you try to keep your distance ‘cause you’re guessing they’re homeless and asking for money but you have to pass them they’re right on the street in your way so you try to walk on the farthest edge of the sidewalk but you watch them with your peripheral vision and you see them making animated gestures and you see their face contorting like they’re having a great debate with no one like they’re giving the speech of their lifetime to no one because, you see, no one wants to listen everyone knows this is a madman raving so you just try to ignore them you make a point to not listen I mean, there’s a Hell of a lot of noise we tune of out of our minds, cars going by, honking their horns, the low rumble of other people talking nearby the shuffle of your footsteps well, this is another one of those noises. you don’t want to hear them you had a bad feeling about them as soon as you saw them just ignore them and hopefully they'll go away III I knew of a woman who went on a date with a male friend of mine, and after the date the guy talked about how great she was, how they talked about their future and what they both wanted he talked about the inside of her place, but after he left messages for her repeatedly, she never called him back again saw this woman weeks later at a Starbuck’s and she said she felt bad but she never wanted to see him again because during their date they never talked about what they wanted he just talked about what he wanted like how she wouldn’t work because he even told her how many of his children she would bear she wouldn’t let him into her home (does that mean he was looking through her window?) and she said that after the date she showered for hours because she felt mentally raped poor girl she saw someone who seemed nice but it took her only a short while to know what he was really like IV sometimes you look at people and you just know sometimes it takes you a little while but people can’t hide their souls forever everyone gets feelings about someone whether or not they want to admit it it’s not women’s intuition men feel it too you feel it in your chest when you see someone good and you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you see someone bad sometimes you look at people and you just know and you can try to avoid that feeling you get and you try to shrug it off as nothing and you try to run away from the feeling for years but you can’t hide from your soul forever it’ll catch up to you when you least expect it sometimes you just know you’ve felt it I’ve felt it too we know what to run to and what to steer clear of we’ve got to it’s in our nature it’s a key to happiness and our key to survival All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.