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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Part of my Pain live 3/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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video video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Part of my Pain” (from her book “Part of My Pain”), and (read together) “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)” and “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).
video not yet rated See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Part of my Pain” (from her book “Part of My Pain”), and (read together) “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 cruelty to animals edition)” and “Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)” 9/10/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony, hue cycling).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Part of my Pain” her poems “Good Escape”, “In These Times”, “Part of my Pain”, “Now That You Got Me”, “Ever Since you Got Me”, “Know You Only Got Me”, “Push Your Button”, “How People Interpret my Words”, and “Observer’s Love Poem” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Part of my Pain

Janet Kuypers
(01/26/12)

I’ve been trying so hard
to be the most perfect

but I’m putting myself
through hell for it

consider it war paint
that leaves me scarred

your insides are smeared
around my eyes almost daily

so yeah, you’ve also been
a part of my pain

#

this pain has now taught me
to believe in inflicting pain

as much as I apparently
believe in receiving it

I like taking a small sharp
blade to you at times too

since you have to be ready
to hurt me more later

#

so although I’m acutely aware
of the pain I go through

don’t you think for a second
that I can’t give out

what I already take

 

(this poem is about eye liner)


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