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read from cc&d (v213), the 10/10 issue
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live at the Café in Chicago 10/12/10
video not yet rated See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom is on stage & asks others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance space Janet Kuypers read her poems “Spit Me Out”, “Fingers Black” and “Be Free of You” 9/18/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.).
video video See YouTube video of “the Thom Experience”, where Thom is on stage & asks others to join him, and in the middle of his open performance space Janet Kuypers read her poems “Spit Me Out”, “Fingers Black” and “Be Free of You” 9/18/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony camera).
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).

Fingers Black

Janet Kuypers
06/15/10

you told me nothing

all I could do
was turn my fingers black
scouring the newspapers
searching for any news
about what happened
with us


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