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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem It’s Just Not Right 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 It’s Just Not Right 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

It’s Just Not Right Janet Kuypers, 09/11/06 #5 it’s spooky it’s unhealthy but I actually put the box of my mother’s ashes into bed earlier today I couldn’t imagine putting it anywhere else to help her rest it seems insane it seems wrong but I curled up with my mom hugged her, wrapped my arms around the box of her ashes and cried but I went to the washroom to wipe my tears to clean my face and I was then called to help my father with setting up meetings for places my mother is registered with because we have to give everyone death certificates to prove to the world that my mother is dead but now I come back into my bedroom and I see my bed, and I see my mother’s ashes tucked into bed and and it’s just not right I have to put the box away you know, the way you place an urn on a mantle I have to do something with it you know, something more generic something everyone else would probably do with ashes of a loved one but I can’t think of a place to put my mother to rest so that watching my mother’s ashes rest in my bed won’t haunt me anymore Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.