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See another YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #2, 07/06/09

Watch this YouTube video Live at One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09

Watch the full show of One Acts (07/06/09, camera #2)... from the Internet Archive

Watch the full show of One Acts (camera #1, 07/06/09) from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 07/27/10

Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic @ the Café in Chicago 07/27/10, w/ Kuypers reading her poem “You Will”, “Marine Rifle Poem” “Build Your Own Cross”, and “Waiting for a Sign”

Waiting for a Sign Janet Kuypers 5/29/09 I have been waiting Sitting in suburban subdivisions Like shared cemeteries Waiting for a sign Is that your voice resonating through the air Or is that just your heat I can see those waving lines of heat like the burning rays of the sun Sine, cosine Up and down, Back and forth Arcing, curling I can see those waves Like heat waves from the sun Burn though me Is this what you do to me? I second-guess myself While I wait ### I drive down the road See old jalopy cars Rusted dinosaurs on the roadside I see huge pick-up trucks With added exhaust pipes Sticking out of the top of their cab I try not to think of these men With tractor trailer fetishes And every time we pass a cemetery In some foreign town I think of a real estate agent Trying to sell you a home             You’re in some foreign town             But look around this beautiful town             See all the town’s amenities But every time we pass a cemetery I think, Here is where we bury our dead ### So now I stand here We spin on our axis over a thousand miles an hour We revolve around the sun Sixty-seven thousand miles an hour Our planet is spiraling through space At six hundred thousand miles an hour Everything is spinning around me And I stand here Observing the world Feeling like I know less and less about more and more My head is spinning And I’m waiting Though I don’t know what I’m waiting for Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.