poem Flying to China, a twitter-length poem about how it costs so much to drink in bars in Chicago, that it might be cheaper to FLY to China and drink THERE so cheaply instead, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Flying to China live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers hosting the open mic 9/4/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, which contains this poem

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 3/21/17 for World Poetry Day of Janet Kuypers’ set of “Short World Poems on World Poetry Day” at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “Every Street Corner”, “Our Lady of Mercy”, “shoe prints on the toilet seat”, “unclean left hands”, “Get His Product to Town”, “Ever Consumed Goat”, “Moros y Christianos”, “middle eastern man in front of me”, “Obama on the Subway”, “Poverty in America”, “Flying to China”, “Building Houses out of Pallets” and “Everyone Has a Choice” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Flying to China
Janet Kuypers
twitter-length poem
7/7/13

I’ll have to check airfares
to be sure,
but I think
that flying to China
for two weeks to drink there
may be cheaper
than drinking in Chicago
for two weeks.

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