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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Koi Ponds and Concrete 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Koi Ponds and Concrete 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Koi Ponds and Concrete Janet Kuypers 11/17/15 I need a new place, some hole in the wall I can call my own — what am I saying, a home that’s a hole in the wall — I want the best I can get... So before I saw this one place, they told me I’d either love it or hate it. So I saw the home with painted marble walls, a 30 foot tall living room wall. And I mean, the back yard even had tropical plants and a bridge spanning over one of two fully stocked koi ponds. Yeah, You heard me right. The place had Koi ponds. So yeah, on first glance I loved the place, so now it’s time to do a little research — sure, it was in my price range, but a trailer park is right across the street. And come to think of it, there are probably tons of code violations with the koi ponds, where the plastic retention water tanks were labeled “hazardous materials”. And speaking of code violations, all of the windows had metal gratings on them — isn’t that a fire department violation? And why did they have those metal gratings anyway? Then I was told the neighbors were isolationists who didn’t take too kindly to strangers (who’d probably have no problem with killing people for “violating personal space”). The more I think about it, the more afraid I get when after they tell me the house was owned by a single man, that I found one closet half filled with women’s formal dresses, and the only thing in their attic was a set of heavy restraints. And half the back yard was covered in concrete (which at first sounds great when you have no lawn mower), but if you test that concrete yard, can you find hollow spots? I’m beginning to think that at some point the cops will bust in with their warrants and concrete crushers to search for dead bodies. Now, as I said, I was looking for some hole in the wall I can call my home — but I don’t want cops digging holes in my home. Because this home should be MY hole in the wall, and I don’t want to find dead bodies everywhere unless I put them there myself.

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