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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Bases Loaded (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera

See this YouTube video 4/26/15 of the Janet Kuypers show “Bases Loaded” poetry at Wrigley Field for the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago, of poems relating to baseball, including her poems “Entire Town’s Baseball Team”, “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)”, “Even Got to First Base”, “One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere”, “Bases Loaded”, and “Young Dreams from a Potential Legend” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Bases Loaded” w/ poems read on 4/26/15 at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bases Loaded”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere” (+ sharing 2015 Poetry Bomb “Bases Loaded” Wrigley Field show image), & “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)” from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Bases Loaded Janet Kuypers 4/25/15 You men talk about bases, but this is how the bases are supposed to go... First base: you go out for drinks and you make out standing outside your car for far too long. Second base: having sex. Anywhere and any time. Because, I mean, a girl has needs too. Third base: that’s when he spits out the words first. “I love you.” And you’re caught off guard, wait a minute, you can’t say “I love you” back unless you think you could spend the rest of your life with them, unless you could see yourself marrying them. So you mentally stop, think about this, you can’t make them wait for over six seconds like you’re doing right now, so quick, what’s your choice. That’s when it becomes so easy to look up at them and say, “I love you too.” What’s fourth base? (Yeah, I think you know where this is going.) That’s when he takes you out to dinner, the maître d’ seats you at the best table in the house, and before the appetizers come he gets down on one knee, pulls out a ring that’s far too much diamond, and asks for your hand in marriage. Because boys, that’s how we see the bases, and that’s how you really hit a home run.

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