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Watch this YouTube video live 10/08/10 at the Chicago Public Library (Avalon Branch), with cello from the HAman of South Africa

Watch this YouTube video from the v217, 02/11 cc&d (& the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Life... from Nothing, live 02/15/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro at the the Café Chicago open mic 02/15/11 & a number of poems from 02/11 cc&d, plus a song

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scars 1997”, “Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)”, and “Our Lady Of Humility’s Hypocrisy” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/7/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Scars 1997”, “Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean)”, and “Our Lady Of Humility’s Hypocrisy” from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/7/18 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Just Out of Reach (Edges of their Ocean) Janet Kuypers 08/23/10 was on some tropical island where tourists go and saw an inlet along the beach where they used net walls to show their trained dolphins you asked me if I wanted to see the dolphins I said no and it made me wonder, which is worse: keeping wild sea animals in total captivity all of their lives with man-made ponds with man-made walls or training wild sea animals at the edges of their ocean putting up man-made walls right up at the beachfront giving them their water so they can look out at what they’re missing as we walked away along the beach I saw a trainer on a platform guide a dolphin as it flipped through the air and I thought let an infant lick a lollipop then pull it away even after they’ve stopped crying even if they’re used to what they’ve got all they can do now is stare at that lollipop just out of reach Copyright © 2010 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.