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Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

Watch this YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers poem Dreams 09/08/07, after the intro for the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 06/01/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (Canon P. S.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony).

Dreams 09/08/07 my husband this morning said he had a dream last night, and I said, so did I I dreamt my mom was alive he didn’t think about his dream again he asked if i talked to her and I said no I dreamt that she walked into the room I just just walked over and hugged her and wouldn’t let go and he said I know why you had that dream and I didn’t know why, so I asked and he said you had it because of your brother and you see, he’s been drinking for so long that he forgets falling down and has been injuring himself and this doesn’t seem to phase him and he doesn’t talk to family anymore because most of us can’t help him anymore so i periodically get a phone call from my sister to tell me the news about my brother hear the latest reports on his health and she called yesterday and said she told a friend about our brother and her friend said this sounds like what her alcoholic friend was like months before he died and I haven’t been able to think about that much my husband even asked me, and I said that I don’t know how to think about it because he is a different person now from when I was little and he was my brother and he asked me what I thought my family would think and I asked my sister if she told dad and she said she did, that he is angry but he is also his son and I think it’s funny, if this is what triggered my dream, it’s funny that when faced with dealing with something like this I only dreamt about hugging my mother and not stopping Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.