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Watch this YouTube video live at the Café in Chicago 04/20/10

Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

Watch this YouTube video 11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

Watch this YouTube video 2:44, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Counting Bodies” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories”, “Tribal Scream”, and “Counting Bodies” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” live at “Recycled Reads” open mic 3/17/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Counting Bodies Janet Kuypers 4/15/10 tried to get a job at the mall they never returned my call applied for a job in a strip store I filled out the form, but my problem is that I answered the questions honestly when they ask if you’ve ever done drugs it’s best to lie even applied for a job in a liquor store now, I have experience in drinking but not in stocking bottles or cleaning liquor store floors so someone said that the government was looking for employees they need you to walk the streets, ask questions, keep records and I thought, I’m organized I work hard, I can do this and a government job would be sweet they pay really well and it would be funny to say that I was a government employee so I got on line, learned about the census all I’d be doing was walking around making a list, checking it twice I’d be in charge of counting the bodies as sick as it sounds, it has a certain ring to it so I called to schedule my evaluation, went to the government building early found out I wasn’t even on the map they looked for employees from but I took the test anyway, struck the icicles as I left for my car I thought about the records the Greek Kings, the Greek government kept of the men they executed I thought about the detailed Nazi records of Jews working in camps, of Jews gassed and how we had to come in and count the bodies and I thought hmmm I never was called from the cencus bureau it was like they knew my mind: “you filled out your forms we don’t need you for anything else” and I thought hmmm maybe I shouldn’t have applied for this job maybe I shouldn’t be working for the government maybe they knew I shouldn’t be a part of their system falling into line and counting bodies Copyright © 2010 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.