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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us Creative Types in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Us Creative Types in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music

Get this poem in the free chapbook “India Stories”, w/ the haiku & poems “Building Houses out of Pallets”, “on the back of a touring bike”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, “Visakhapatnam”, “poor”, “unless”, “don’t”, “cover”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “extend”, “Quoting twitter with a found haiku”, “choice”, “ Us Creative Types”, and “JY asks”, read to music on 3/14/15 in the poetry performance art show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “India stories” poems “Us Creative Types”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, and “on the back of a touring bike”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “India stories” poems “Us Creative Types”, “unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere”, and “on the back of a touring bike”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Mary’s Perspective on How that Whole Jesus thing Turned Out”, “letter, 4/14/95 one”, “letter, 4/14/95 two”, “letter, 4/14/95 three”, “letter, 4/19/95”, “Us Creative Types”, and “How People Interpret My Words” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testament” on 4/30/23 in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This was also released as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Us Creative Types Janet Kuypers 5/17/12 I’m angry with you. I know us creative types are self-absorbed, but only if you’re so destitute that even shelters or food banks can’t help should you ever think about it. I mean, I know we’re really all so selfish, and selfishness is a virtue, but I swear to god, this is the wrong kind of selfishness. If you think this will make you happy, this lack of existence, think of how much pain you’ve caused by this one selfish act. Is that how you want to be remembered? I know us creative types are so self-absorbed, so wouldn’t you rather be remembered for your talents, and not have your cut-short creativity be so overshadowed by the pain you’ve caused? ### Because screw you, I know pain, I’ve been where you’ve been, I think I’ve been closer than you, I think I’ve had more reason than you... I don’t know how long I was on that edge, and I struggle to this day with the knowledge that I should have just done it and gotten it over with. Trust me, I know. But all us creative types have these demons haunting us, and it’s supposed to be our creativity that gets us through it all. So yeah, I’m angry with you. Because you said you’re a creative type, so you should have been strong enough. Test your brain and your soul by testing your creativity more. I mean, Kerouac may have tested himself by bathing in bathtubs of liquor, people have tested themselves with anything from drug overdosing to auto-erotic asphyxiation. And yeah, those creative types were selfish, but they aren’t as selfish as you. And I’m angry, because you took the easy way out. And I’m angry, because you caused so much pain in this world with this one selfish act. And I’m angry, because now, what you’ve done, the pain you’ve caused, that’s the only way I am forced to think of you now.

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