poem Vengeful Phone, a twitter-length poem about blaming your smart phone for all the calls to make to yell at your ex, By Chicago Poet and performance artist Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem as if she were on the phone in her “overheard conversations” series 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading many poems as if she were on the phone in “overheard conversations” 8/15/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 8/15/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry - including this piece

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vengeful Phone live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Posterized)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic and the Michael Hoag feature 12/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago - INCLUDING THI POEM

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from her “Astronomy 101” show, then her poem “Vengeful Phone” from her “Overheard Conversations” show, and “Quitting is Always an Option” from her “Listening In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video 11/17/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon” from her “Astronomy 101” show, then her poem “Vengeful Phone” from her “Overheard Conversations” show, and “Quitting is Always an Option” from her “Listening In” show, all read from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” @ “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vengeful Phone” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Even if Only (dreams 4/15/19)” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (edited on World Theater day) at “Recycled Reads” 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vengeful Phone” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Even if Only (dreams 4/15/19)” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (edited on World Theater day) at “Recycled Reads” 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Vengeful Phone
Janet Kuypers
7/20/12

I don’t have a smart phone.
I have a vengeful phone.
It always “accidentally”
calls my ex
(who’s still on speed dial)
whenever I’m ranting
about how much I hate him.

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