poem On that Summer Day, a poem about feeling alone on your sixteenth birthday (“sweet 16”). By Chicago Poet and performance artist Janet Kuypers

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On that Summer Day
Janet Kuypers
from the “Depression - the singles” collection
7/7/12
When most Americans
turn sixteen,
they get a party,
or presents,
cards when they turn
sweet sixteen.
But on that summer day
when 0I turned sixteen...
I’m sure my family
said happy birthday
to me,
but I was so alone that day
that I had to walk
to where my friend worked,
to stop myself
from crying,
just so I wouldn’t feel
so alone
on my sixteenth birthday.

my hand to an anim of jkchair