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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’ll Push the Cart 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

I’ll Push The Cart 06/27/06 every time we went to the grocery store we’d want to help her out, take the cart for her so it would be one less thing for her to worry about but she always insists, “I’ll push the cart” and like me, she’d put her purse in that little basket that fold out and we figured, hey, she’s the mom, she has always been in control of everything this makes sense but after a year or two she fills us in that she wanted something to lean on because, well, she’s lived a long life and she’s getting older and more tired and I think about this now after the two rounds of chemo failed to rid her blood of the cancer and my sister takes her for occasional walks while she’s in a wheelchair so she at least has different sights to see and every time I visit her now she’s resting on the couch because with her platelets so low with her needing blood to rejuvenate her she’s tired all the time now so yes, she needs something to lean on and I’m far away and I wish I could be there so she could lean on me Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.