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See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Reduced To Now (an edit of her 2006 poem This Is What It’s Reduced To Now, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Reduced To Now (an edit of her 2006 poem This Is What It’s Reduced To Now, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Journey” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Journey” poems “Final Rally (2015 edit)”, “Reduced to Now”, and “Extinct on Planet Earth”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Over the River and Through the Woods” book poems “Final Rally 2015 edit” (+ show image 1) & “the Messenger 2015 edit” (+ show image 2), & “Strontium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + Mysticism vs. Science show images 1 & 2), then her her “Over the River and Through the Woods” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” book poems “Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat”, “Strontium Save Me” (+ bonus poem image & show images 1 & 2 after the 9/7/19 WZRD 88.3fm Radio show interview), & “Strontium and 3-D time” (+ poem video) to close her “Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was 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 a Paper Tear filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

final rally 2015 edit Janet Kuypers 3/26/15 adapted from 2006’s “final rally” last night my sister called me after we all heard about how mom couldn’t stand up and it looked like she was going to die very soon well, last night my sister called me and told me she just talked to dad and heard that mom was feeling better that she uses the walker to get her medication at night she’s still able to use the washroom and she even had champagne with blackberries she was feeling better she even asked for wine coolers and my sister and I laughed I said, “She shouldn’t be drinking alcohol” and she said, “I don’t care if the blackberries are covered in alcohol, it’s food” and we were thrilled she was eating something again and we thought she’d be able to hold on for a little longer now ### my brother described it as like her last rally her last chance to be happy, to live ### when I heard last night that mom was drinking champagne with blackberries I told my husband that we should buy some blackberries and celebrate mom feeling better the champagne is chilling, but we never got the blackberries last night we had no idea mom would be celebrating with blackberries in her champagne in her final rally so I’ve got this bottle of champagne in my refrigerator and no blackberries they are my favorite fruit, you know but I’ve got this bottle of champagne in my refrigerator and no blackberries and I don’t know what to celebrate anymore

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