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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

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 w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5-8/24 “The Lives We Deserve” bonus book poems “Manic Depressive or Something”, “Listening to the Cancer Ads”, & “Key To Survival” (& sharing the bonus “Getting Wired” 8/8/09 chapbook front cover image) to close her “Poetic License 11/3/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Charcoal filter; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Manic Depressive or Something while working, one of my clients informed me they have to take days to move their ninety-one year old mother (for the sixth time in ten years), and he doesn’t know is he has the strength to do this sort of thing and I was about to write him back, saying that I’m sure I’m younger than him (because we only correspond by letter) and my mother is seventy-five and is dying so you don’t have it so bad you mother’s still living and and that’s when I decided not to write them back I don’t like revealing that much of my personal life, you know isn’t that funny I write, but I don’t want to reveal that much of my personal life I know I’m writing now but I’m not writing to anyone I’m just getting it out of my system that happens to me now, I’ll start to think about it and it will bring me to tears and then I’ll have to clean myself up and I’ll have to readjust to everyone else having a normal life and I’ll go about my day and anything can happen that will remind me again and I’ll fall apart just a little more again and I’ll clean myself up again and well, you get the idea it’s like a cycle now like I’m manic depressive or something because when I forget about it I can laugh and have a great time and when I’m in those in-between stages no one notices at the grocery store that I’m losing my mother I don’t let it on I don’t act happy I don’t act sad I just live in that in-between time until I remember again and drop down again and I’m depressive again until the cycle lets me go back up Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.