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See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago, w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of the 6/20/15 Janet Kuypers show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” in 10 Shades of Chocolate in 10 Shades of Chocolate in Chicago, w/ the poems Under his Bed, oxygen to flame the fire, Fuming in the Morning, PDQ in Tin Foil 2015, melted marshmallow 2015, grandmother charged with murder 2015, Before Taking Over the Controls 2015, and Empty Chocolate Counter (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download these poems in the free chapbook Poetic Shades of Chocolate w/ poems read 6/20/15 at 10 Shades of Chocolate show in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem extinct, like the dodo live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem extinct, like the dodo live 5/13/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 5/13/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago WITH HER READING THIS POEM

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ June 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” poems “Fuming in the Morning”, “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, and “Under His Bed”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” poems “Fuming in the Morning”, “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, and “Under His Bed”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Fuming in the Morning Janet Kuypers 5/11/15 When I wake up every morning, unlike everyone else, I rip the blankets off of me because I’m boiling hot. Been trying to figure out why. When I wake up every morning alone, I wonder if my missing you manifests itself by leaving me tossing and turning in my dreams, until I wake up in a sweat. These must be my red-hot thoughts percolating up inside me in the middle of the night, leaving me fuming in the morning. This is what I wonder. Is this what being without you makes me do. I think I run to you all night long. When I go to bed at night after a day without you, I’m ice cold. But my brain spends hours throughout the night in my sleep to think about us together. To think about trying to find you. To spend hours thinking about what being without you means. And I wake up, like I do every morning, after feeling like I’ve mentally run a marathon, and I go about my day, alone. Life makes me cold again. And I wonder what it takes to get back to you again.

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