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live in the show Seeing a Psychiatrist 09/09/08, Chicago at the Cafe
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Twitterati” her poems “Poverty in America”, “Oklahoma water-surfing”, “Zach makes me Think about these Things”, “Mechanical Soldiers”, “Fingers Black”, “You Cannot Burn Me”, “Opening Our Own Doors”, “Guantanamo Bay”, “Even if the Pope Claims It”, “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst”, “From Words to Wars”, “Money Became an Abstract”, “Where does the Love Go”, “Spent”, and “Cast in Stone” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Money Became an Abstract

05/09/08

the U.S. pulled the dollar from the gold standard

and money
became an abstract

so we don’t know any better
and we overextend ourselves

all of my life
money has been an abstract
and everything’s now a guessing game

and now we don’t even know
what’s around the corner anymore


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