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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “It Hurts in the Bones”, then her poem “Plutonium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then covering the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with John on acoustic guitar live 3/10/18 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

It Hurts in the Bones Janet Kuypers, 9/5/06 *#035;2 “I didn’t realize how much pain she was in she got out of the house one day and I did gardening for her, she told me what weeds needed to be pulled as she sat in the chair in front of the house she’d try to pull a weed up if it was right by her chair but she did that sparingly and when I saw her, I’d say, mom, tell me what to do and I’ll do it she needed to go inside again after a short while and I think that was the most movement she did for the rest of her life I’d try to get her out of the house you know, just to walk maybe to the next house and back and she’d always say no and she looked like her neck hurt, her back hurt so I’d ask if if I could rub her neck or back and she’d say no, then she’d say that wouldn’t help and then she’d say it hurts down in the bones and we read this is one of the stages of this disease and I don’t know what it feels like to hurt in your bones something deeper than deep muscle pain I I can’t imagine it I can’t imagine what it feels like I think my mom wouldn’t let on about how much pain she was in When the doctors told mom she had six months to a year with this disease my sister said to mom, your father (our grandfather) had cancer and the doctors said he had six months to live. how long did he live? and mom replied, six years. so she tried to tell her that we Bakutis are strong folk and she can be okay if she fights but I think mom was in so much pain that she made a decision tight then and there that she didn’t want that pain deep down in her bones any more and decided to let her enemy win. we keep saying to people that it’s better that she’s not suffering any more emotionally, for us, we wish she was here but we don’t want her to feel that pain anymore and we keep telling everyone that this is for the best.” Copyright © 2006 Janet Kuypers. U.S. Government Copyright © 2004 Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers on all art and all writings on this site completed before 6/6/04. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.