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Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Upstage Everyone Else” at the Café Mestizo open mic 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” and “On a High Horse Like This” at the Café Mestizo open mic 1/21/12, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa (Francois Le Roux) in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 3/18/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing 5 poems (including this one) in a poetry reading to “Make people Think” 3/18/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “on the Bridge”, then her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” & “On a High Horse Like This” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/9/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “on the Bridge”, then her poems “Upstage Everyone Else” & “On a High Horse Like This” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and “You Carried It” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Upstage Everyone Else”, “Letting Ourselves Go”, and “You Carried It” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Upstage Everyone Else Janet Kuypers 01/12/11 you wake up in the morning clean yourself up take the commute figure out what you’re supposed to do go through all the motions take your lunch break feel dreary keep up with the schedule make it home screw making dinner there’s gotta be some leftovers in the fridge then go to a bar, watch a movie or just sit at home with some beer and leave it at that before you do it again tomorrow and again tomorrow and again tomorrow that’s what it always is, you know we’re all in this cycle we’re all on this racetrack there’s this goal we all keep going toward get married get the house churn out the kids make a ton of money buy the nice cars wear the big jewels go on the fancy trips upstage everyone else it’s like we’re all on this racetrack like we’re a donkey and someone is dangling this carrot in front of us to keep us moving so this is what we do we see the commercials on tee vee we see what we have and we become dissatisfied so we see that carrot dangling in front of us just always out of reach so this is what we do we stay in this cycle and we trudge forward on the only track we know I finally decided to look at this cycle look at what I’m doing and I saw the carrot and the donkey was dead and I thought hmmm Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.