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Watch this YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/17/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video read at the Kinzua Bridge (the bridge in the poem a woman committed suicide by jumping from) in Pennsylvania 09/04/09

Watch this YouTube video live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago

see the entire performance live, Mercury Cafe 08/09/08, Chicago with film from the Internet Archive

Listen (1:57) to this studio recording from the DMJ Art Connection

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 1/7/18 of Janet Kuypers in Austin reading her poems “Key to Survival”, “Thirteen Seconds”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It” from her book “Say Nothing” at “Recycled Reads” book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Thirteen Seconds 06/28/08 a woman from my town jumped from a bridge there was a creek nearby ten feet wide, two feet deep and and I didn’t know her but we thought about it her jumping to her death and we calculated at the height she jumped from at her speed while she was falling it took her thirteen seconds to fall to her death thirteen seconds she thought for thirteen seconds before she died and the thing is, she might fall through the nearby tree branches and we thought about that the silver maple trees might hold her back, slow her down well, she hit those trees and they didn’t save her so this is what I think of those thirteen seconds, give or take that’s what I think of Copyright © 2008 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.