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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Private Lives 2005”, “Precinct Fourteen”, and “Holding my Hand” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Private Lives 2005

the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois

sitting on the el train
i saw a middle-eastern man
sitting across from me
holding a large Zip-Loc bag
of some sort of food paste,
i couldn’t tell,
it looked like some sort of
curry-filled food paste

and the man looked unhappy,
and after a few minutes
i saw him open up
the Zip-Loc bag,
throw up into it,
then close the bag again

so, he was carrying
his vomit with him
on the el

at least he had a bag
he could seal it up with


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the 2007 book Tick Tock, front cover Life on the Edge, 2007 ccd collection book, front cover It All Comes Down, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover Rising to the Surface, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover

my hand to an anim of jkchair